Good writeup, but a few things I’m taking away from it.
I’ll say it again, fuck RedditCorp.
A recurring theme I’m seeing in these articles is the framing of it as a RedditCorp vs mods issue. I was just a user. Yes, the mods got screwed hard here, but so did any casual user who relied on well-designed apps to allow them to access and participate in the discussions they cared about without being clotheslined by an ad every 5 seconds. This is as insulting to the users as it is anyone else.
It’s been mentioned by a few others but why did they choose Discord? This article points out the flaws with it, all of which would be resolved by migrating to Lemmy/Fediverse. I’m not a user of Discord or Reddit, so I’m not tuned in to their reasoning.
Related, another article that gives no mention to the incredible growth that’s happening over here. Maybe that’s for the best, but a little exposure couldn’t hurt. I know all of my niche equivalents over here are silent.
Shoutout to Guy in the article, most of the things he said are 100% spot on for members of any passionate community. I hope more people who continue to use that one outdated site read this article and finally ask themselves, “Why the fuck am I still sticking around this place?”
To your point 3, there have been several articles that have claimed that these reddit communities moved to discord which is completely misunderstanding the situation. Discord isn’t being used as an alternative to Reddit; that’s not what it’s designed for. The mods have used it for coordination because of course they would.
There being no mention of Lemmy or Kbin shows that the writer knows very little about the real situation. Lots of people moved over here during June and July, but you’d only really know that if you were actually following what was going on when it happened instead of being a casual observer like the author.
Good writeup, but a few things I’m taking away from it.
I’ll say it again, fuck RedditCorp.
A recurring theme I’m seeing in these articles is the framing of it as a RedditCorp vs mods issue. I was just a user. Yes, the mods got screwed hard here, but so did any casual user who relied on well-designed apps to allow them to access and participate in the discussions they cared about without being clotheslined by an ad every 5 seconds. This is as insulting to the users as it is anyone else.
It’s been mentioned by a few others but why did they choose Discord? This article points out the flaws with it, all of which would be resolved by migrating to Lemmy/Fediverse. I’m not a user of Discord or Reddit, so I’m not tuned in to their reasoning.
Related, another article that gives no mention to the incredible growth that’s happening over here. Maybe that’s for the best, but a little exposure couldn’t hurt. I know all of my niche equivalents over here are silent.
Shoutout to Guy in the article, most of the things he said are 100% spot on for members of any passionate community. I hope more people who continue to use that one outdated site read this article and finally ask themselves, “Why the fuck am I still sticking around this place?”
To your point 3, there have been several articles that have claimed that these reddit communities moved to discord which is completely misunderstanding the situation. Discord isn’t being used as an alternative to Reddit; that’s not what it’s designed for. The mods have used it for coordination because of course they would.
There being no mention of Lemmy or Kbin shows that the writer knows very little about the real situation. Lots of people moved over here during June and July, but you’d only really know that if you were actually following what was going on when it happened instead of being a casual observer like the author.