I think Reddit has shown it is no longer is the same open source, transparent, and community driven platform it used to be. Today's Reddit is huge, and it will still be relevant 5 years from now, and I don't think it will have a Digg incident. So to that end, the sub should just stay open to help new players.
Personally, I am winding down how active I am on Reddit. Does anyone know if mod @Xperr7 is okay us shamelessly copy posts from Reddit?
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Xperr7@kbin.social · 4 pts · 3y
I'm fine with posts like this being posted. It drives discussion, or at least deeper thought. Eventually, I think that the sub should reopen, but not right now, mostly for news/new players. Reddit has proved they can't be trusted, but they're also big enough now that it barely even matters. I hate to say it, but Reddit is too big of a resource to lose forever, whether it be for asking questions, or already having them answered. It was usually more polite than forums when it came to help, and infinitely easier to read, so, once I learned that putting Reddit in my google search gave high quality answers, that's essentially all I did if I ever had a problem.
While I'd love if kbin became big, I mostly made this as a "just in case", though I've grown to enjoy kbin quite a bit during the blackout, so as long as I'm a mod here I'll still be making sure things are fine and trying my best to keep things even slightly active (Was never a poster on reddit, only really a commenter). Still, I'm ready to hand off the mag to the r/arknights mods should they ever want to migrate the sub.
Kotking@mastodon.social · 1 pts · 3y
@Syo @Xperr7
Trying out fediverse thing on practice. And yeah basically we got slapped on a wrist (and poor Apollo dev got dunk in cold water) and must endure it as reddits top try to get more ad views. No compromise, no discussion, short deadline after long non answers (we knew about nsfw being only on official app a few months ago and that is a debacle to address). So you can't look back at #reddit and say yeah I have community there I won't leave. Free moderation≠being abused.