unixporn - Lemmy
lemmy.ml
# unixporn Submit screenshots of all your *NIX desktops, themes, and nifty configurations, or submit anything else that will make ricers happy. Maybe a server running on an Amiga, or a Thinkpad signed by Bjarne Stroustrup? Show the world how pretty your computer can be! # Rules 1. Post On-Topic 2. No 3. Busy 4. Use High-Quality Images 5. Include a Details Comment 6. No NSFW

Hey all! Mod team of r/unixporn here. After a couple weeks of work on our end, we finally have a Lemmy community at LemmyWorld that we’re committing to moderating in the long run. Additionally, due to Lemmy’s federation, you should be able to crosspost between here and there even if you don’t have an account on LemmyWorld. Hope to see you there!

  • DisregardForAwkward@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I’d honestly have preferred to see a discussion with the community about which instance to make official rather than a unilateral decision by Reddit mods.

    This is frankly my beef with all of this:

    • “we haven’t actually registered any trademark (and I don’t think we’d wanna do that, either)”
    • “things such as the logo do have copyrights attached to them, and the current team has explicit permission to use that branding which unrelated communities wouldn’t”

    You guys think you own the “brand” and not the community members. Good on you for putting in the effort to cultivate it on Reddit over the years and putting in the thankless work to moderate it, however, without the community your “brand” means nothing.

    If we’re truly open source enthusiasts maybe it’s time to embrace some open source ideals around the community. Perhaps yearly mod elections which help rotate interested folk through the responsibilities. Some sign that you all are embracing the spirit of the community and not trying to own it.

    Of course, if you care more about ownership, I’m happy to subscribe to both (all, if more pop up?) communities of the name “unixporn”, although as a slight protest I will not to post to your “official” community since it will appear to not support the actual essence of what we are doing here.