We're joining the Reddit blackout from June 12th to 14th, to protest the planned API changes that will kill 3rd party apps
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Hey there /r/joplinapp Recently Reddit Inc has announced changes to their API which, if enacted, will shut down many, if not all, 3rd party apps...
  •  arctic pie (he/him)   ( @arcticpiecitylights@beehaw.org ) English
    5•1 year ago

    There would need to be a significant number of new instances to accommodate that. I’m sure some will pop up, but even a single moderate sized sub sending 100% of users to lemmy could crash a handful of the top existing instances (basically wherever those 10s of thousands of users choose to go). We need more servers and decentralization.