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I have been playing around with Lemmy, the federated reddit alternative that's been all the buzz since the API saga really began to kick off. Although I do quite like the experience I've had so far casually browsing, and will probably be spending a lot of my lurking on there anyways from now on, the mod tools leave a lot to be desired and the project itself is not without much controversy either. I've set up a community on the main Lemmy instance for League of Linux for anyone who want to join and test as well, but I must stress that it is not permanent, nor will it be replacing the subreddit at this stage. I may end up deleting it entirely. It is exclusively for exploration purposes for now. My current feeling is that these reddit changes may have unfortunately come a little too early in Lemmy's lifespan; in many ways it does not feel mature enough to handle reddit refugees the same way reddit took in Digg refugees.
I think the biggest issue I have with with the alternatives I've looked at so far have been the lack of built-in wiki tools. I currently heavily rely upon the built-in reddit wiki for collecting and documenting everything here, which further complicates the situation. To be fully transparent, my plan was already for the next major iteration of the wiki to be off-site, something akin to a TiddlyWiki or DokuWiki; I've had this in mind for a long time now, including while rewriting the current iteration of the wiki. However, I am nowhere near beginning that project, and certainly wouldn't have anything cobbled together before July 1st. Effectively, wiki tooling is a must-have.
If these changes are implemented as is, my personal consumption of reddit outside of r/leagueoflinux will drop entirely overnight; I browse exclusively through FOSS clients on mobile and desktop which will cease to function due to these changes. Although RES+old.reddit makes the official site actually browsable on desktop, I feel like continuing to use the site after these changes only serves to affirm reddit's disgustingly greedy decision and weaken the protest of others.
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