Most of it is contained to specific forums, there’s just more than one across a few instances, RedditMigration on Kbin is another.

The more time I spend here the more I’m realising blocking communities/magazines is as much a key to a good experience as subscribing to them, of not more.

It’ll all die down anyway, to a degree there’s just a lot of people here who just arrived from reddit. I’d avoid blocking the word itself as the wave will pass plus it’s being used as a comparison in meta threads about features and UI and you might find you want to see those conversations.

That is by far the best mod update and explaination I have read yet.

Poor Inbred!

You misunderstand the use of quotations here, they’re air quotes. Reddit has already met with an “expert” - the mods at r/blind would like them to meet with an accredited professional.

I don’t think accessibility is particularly good anywhere, but when software is open source, or failing that APIs free, people take things into their own hands and make it good. I read this in that context, even the fact Reddit would meet with community representatives rather than ask an “expert” is better than a lot of companies, though you would by the outcome if that is genuine or for optics.

Because Reddit got a reputation for being lenient on people who are toxic. I gave up on general, current affairs or regional subs a long time ago it’s only smaller communities I’m leaving now.

Think of r/incels or r/The_Donald, r/GenderCritical, r/NoNewNormal etc - and they’re the examples from recent, more generally appealing years after the subs named after slurs were nuked. These are the subreddits that got mainstream attention, they may no longer be on Reddit, but their members are, and anyone who would be drawn to them is still signing up, on the other hand lots of people have been turned off the site by those associations. It’s not just that there’s lots of people joining the site, it’s who those people are.

In the same vein it’s a really easy site to astroturf and there’s no doubt in my mind that the “culture wars” are being stoked there because of it. Because there’s a market for aged accounts for use in political astroturfing or general product shilling there are companies running the same shitty repost bots everywhere to produce them. It’s a cycle that seems to be getting shorter and shorter.

It’s cool to see you here! Thanks for giving the full story. I still don’t agree with the decision to open up against the community’s wishes but I am glad that you chose to step back rather than being pushed to. I know the discord is there and I see people starting to come together on kbin/lemmy too so I hope we get a positive space in line with the ethics many of us share again soon.

Oh for sure, I’ve already purged my accounts and I’ve no interest in going back, it’s disappointing though, the same happened to r/emulation but I’m less mad about that, that’s an open source community that dodgy people try to make money off, I’d prefer it be anti community than an outright scam which could reasonably happen if one of the more nefarious app devs had a chance to request it as an inactive forum.

@SomeoneElse I used Power Delete Suite, it appears to have an option to overwrite instead of straight deleting though it sounds like some forums have got wind of it! https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite/

@Quizmo This account has some useful posts for people from my country accessing healthcare, I’m going to copy them to a suitable wiki, everything else is going for good!

Oh I had, and I was all the better for it!

Some have also polled their userbase elsewhere, the Retro Gaming Network, which represents about 70 subs, polled on Discord - they’re currently 492 to 55 to extend the blackout indefinitely. I’ve just looked at Reddark now and the only sub that’s included from those 70 is r/retrogaming, so add 69 more to the 6250 currently dark.

It’s a link aggregator, people will see more relevant news by going to their local media outlets website, I don’t see this as a valid reason not to go dark.