r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAView.com
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Re: r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAView.com
#2I wonder how much more this will happen with the current controversy surrounding Reddit’s funding and uncertain future. They are doing surprisingly well after a horrid redesign and everything else that’s happened over there.
Re: r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAView.com
#3There are two problems that you will have to deal with:
- auto-discovery and growth through r/all - no longer will you have people popping in because you made it to Reddit's front page
- loss of the great number of current subscribers who (before) can go to their reddit homepage and see your top posts automatically, but (now) would have to go to a totally new website to see your posts. I subscribe to about 40 subreddits but only visit deliberately about 3 of those.
Good luck (sincerely), but I would not be surprised if r/CMV stays larger than your new independent website.
Re: r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAView.com
#4There are two problems that you will have to deal with: - auto-discovery and growth through r/all - no longer will you have people popping in because you made it to Reddit's front page - loss of the great number of current subscribers who (before) can go to their reddit homepage and see your top posts automatically, but (now) would have to go to a totally new website to see your posts. I subscribe to about 40 subredd…
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Re: r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAView.com
#5I love this subreddit but wouldn't visit a separate website.
Re: r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAView.com
#6There are two problems that you will have to deal with: - auto-discovery and growth through r/all - no longer will you have people popping in because you made it to Reddit's front page - loss of the great number of current subscribers who (before) can go to their reddit homepage and see your top posts automatically, but (now) would have to go to a totally new website to see your posts. I subscribe to about 40 subredd…
They could solve both issues by federating with Mastodon instead. No, they wouldn't be on Reddit specifically, but they'd be interacting with a fairly sizeable userbase nonetheless.
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#7I love this subreddit but wouldn't visit a separate website.
I'm sure people who used to use Slashdot and Digg thought the same thing.
I enjoy being a bystander to efforts to break free from platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, etc; Stackoverflow, for example, pushes their data dumps into the Internet Archive [1] and that data will never be locked up. Even if unsuccessful, efforts to break free of closed platforms are necessary, otherwise we're burning up untold amounts of human effort for data that will be lost to time in the name of VC and shareholder profits.
Re: r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAView.com
#8It'll be interesting to see if this works. If it does, it means that Reddit mods can gain full ownership of their communities and do something more than just run a volunteer subreddit. If you run a popular sub, I think it's reasonable to ask why you are spending countless unpaid hours tending to a community when someone else reaps all the profit. It's natural to say: "Okay, I have hundreds of thousands of users here on Reddit. That's gotta be worth something."
This does open the Pandora's box of monetizing a group of people that really dislike getting monetized. (Reddit users, that is.) And if it does work, maybe Reddit communities will start to be seen as a way to start community-based businesses/organizations.
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#9I love this subreddit but wouldn't visit a separate website.
I'm sure people who used to use Slashdot and Digg thought the same thing. I enjoy being a bystander to efforts to break free from platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, etc; Stackoverflow, for example, pushes their data dumps into the Internet Archive [1] and that data will never be locked up. Even if unsuccessful, efforts to break free of closed platforms are necessary, otherwise we're burning up untold amounts o…
I wonder if rss will allow for custom homepages... ever.
Re: r/ChangeMyView Is Graduating Reddit: Introducing ChangeAView.com
#10I wonder how much more this will happen with the current controversy surrounding Reddit’s funding and uncertain future. They are doing surprisingly well after a horrid redesign and everything else that’s happened over there.
Reddit is transitioning to a Facebook model to suck up all the users that are hemorrhaging from over there. There's a new concentration on posting to personal profiles, integrating commercial entities (ie, u/washingtonpost) as "users" to blend in their ads seemlessly, and gentrifying to appease these new adertisers that don't want to be next to potentially controversial content.
These are all things that don't bother the new users at all and the loss of the founding population of redditors isn't causing any tears at corporate.
Of course they go after the scoundrels first in this quest but as the frog slowly boils more and more mainstream 'controversial' subreddits like changemyview will get pushed out.