The latest from /r/ModCoord.
I think something to remember is that some communities on Reddit are essential and important to people’s wellbeing. There are subreddits that help people get through cancer, or help people with depression and suicide. I help (as best I can) with a subreddit that helps people with access to what can be life changing and life saving medical cannabis. Reddit, as much as I despise social media and centralisation of power and knowledge can be the sole place some people go for support. Of course it shouldn’t be that way, but that doesn’t change what it is currently.
Because of this, protests aren’t just about shitposts or cat subreddits or whatever that anyone can find somewhere else or restart on the Fediverse. It’s also about trying to force Reddit’s hand into improving what there is so that the essential subreddits can continue (at least for now until a better alternative is created and folks have finished migrating there such as what r/blind has done).
So the reason r/bind has already jumped to an alternative is because they are affected the most and the hardest.
The other kind of communities today that you mentioned are less impacted, so they can continue … for now.
I do hope though that the right groups of people are looking into creating the better alternatives right now. The day may come when reddit decides these subs are too much of a liability - or even just not enough of a money maker - and yanks them. And there’s no reason to believe that reddit would give them even as much warning as r/blind had.
Emphasizing not a suggestion to move right away, but make sure these places can start establishing backups so they don’t exist solely at the whim of reddit.
start establishing backups so they don’t exist solely at the whim of reddit.
This is the really essential point that I think bares repeating. Yes, these communities fill important roles, but that is EXACTLY why we should be pushing them on to other platforms.
They don’t need to move entirely, but they should be trying to mirror themselves somewhere else.
Spez may not being going as power mad as Elon yet, but he’s definitely looking over there, distracted boyfriend style.
You can find those kinds of helpful places on social media sites like Facebook too. That doesn’t mean any of us want to go (back) there. Change, by definition, means that people are affected, but that doesn’t mean that it shouldn’t happen.
Some people will stay there and become the “Boomers”, some will move.