Good, as long as they migrate to their own hosted instances of Lemmy, Mastodon etc. and don't use the "default" or "official" instances.
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#22What is/was stopping Reddit from doing this: - Decide that you don't want third-party apps. - Buy out all the big players (Apollo, etc.) and integrate some of their tooling into your own app/core. I understand it would have cost a lot of money, but they could have found a middle-ground where everyone is happy. Instead, they're throwing a stupid tantrum that could end up costing them a lot more than it would have cost…
Much easier to say "subreddits can no longer be private"
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#23Big loss, I would google stuff like: "Why is there only one Negus in deep space 9?" and more often than not it was a Reddit thread someone submitted 8 years ago with in depth knowledge. This is huge, hopefully more communities migrate away from Reddit. That platform got way too big for it's britches. Just don't move to Discord, Discord is terrible. The major problem Reddit has and will always have is "power moderator…
>Losers with nothing else to do but become janitors and impose their will on very large forums. I agree. Wikipedia has the same problem, with possibly even larger impact.
Completely agree. Take for example that guy who wants to remove one word from Wikipedia. He has the hours and hours and hours necessary to navigate those polotiks and then the hours and hours and hours necessary to impose his sensibilities.
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#24this is so sad. i understand the protest, but it feels like burning books. is all that prior information gone? or is the protest temporary way to get the community migrated away but content will be restored for historical purposes?
Not to be a jerk about it, but this is why you shouldn't have stored the books in a warehouse owned by a company that could lock the doors at any time. This is the opposite of why the 'net was invented.
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#26What are the current solutions for discoverability in Lemmy? Having a tombstone on Reddit pointing people towards a specific instance is good but it’s still hard to be the definitive community when the namespace isn’t as restricted any more. Maybe that’s better?
https://startrek.website is the third Google result for "star trek lemmy". "Star trek discussion board" shows many other discussion boards, so discoverability seems fine to me.
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#27And for those of us with no interest in following the mods, can /r/Startrek be opened again? If the old mods moved platforms, there’s no need to keep this private.
It was reddit's own mistake of allowing the same few hundred mods to moderate a significant percentage of the top 10,000 subreddits.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
more like building a new library
how do I access the content that was at /r/startrek?
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#29this is so sad. i understand the protest, but it feels like burning books. is all that prior information gone? or is the protest temporary way to get the community migrated away but content will be restored for historical purposes?
Not to be a jerk about it, but this is why you shouldn't have stored the books in a warehouse owned by a company that could lock the doors at any time. This is the opposite of why the 'net was invented.
What was the other option, realistically? There are barely other options today, never mind 15 years ago.
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#30And for those of us with no interest in following the mods, can /r/Startrek be opened again? If the old mods moved platforms, there’s no need to keep this private.
Something that Reddit admins and users constantly miss is: "its the mods that make a subreddit amazing".
People openly talk about this as the reason that HackerNews continues to be such a vibrant community.
Replacing the mods will change the community, full stop. Could be for the better , could be for the worse.