I’m going to miss AITA. Even if someone makes it a community, it will take a long time to populate.

  • cygnus-velum
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    1032 years ago

    I’m really worried for those who use third party apps and depend on r/stopdrinking. That community single-handedly helped me get sober.

    I fear that someone who is on the brink of breaking sobriety and wants to reach out on r/stopdrinking, not being able to access it from the app they normally use would be just enough of a hurdle for them to give in and start drinking again.

    Makes me really sad to think about since it can be a dark place and the people there are so genuinely caring.

    • @_number8_
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      452 years ago

      there was a quote from a reddit exec recently about how awful it was that people were ‘sharing things that they wouldn’t even say in therapy’ which were going un-monetized. sick, sick people

      i subbed to lots of mental health subs which were invaluable in the last 10 years. 1.5yrs sober as well. hope lemmy is a good alt; hopefully there won’t be any automod bullshit, like towards the end i couldn’t even get a post through in /r/depression, i mean my god

      • @sorenant
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        192 years ago

        inb4 Reddit placing targeted ads about beer on /r/stopdrinking.

        • Lifted_lowered
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          112 years ago

          This is a thing already, I almost never get alcohol ads until I post about trying to be sober.

      • @Ensirius
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        21 year ago

        If that’s real they are so fucking awful.

    • @Oldslewfoot
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      202 years ago

      This is the subreddit I’ll miss most. I’m at about 120 days after 20 years of drinking because of the people in that sub inspiring me. I would start a similar community here but I don’t really feel like I could handle running something like that.

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        2 years ago

        Congrats on 120 days! It will be two years on July 8 for me.

        I had the same thought about spinning one up here. I’m not sure I’d be capable of running a community like that especially with how much of a tight ship they’ve got running.

        I wonder if it would be worth posting and asking about it there or DM’ing a mod perhaps. Maybe I’ll give that a go.

        • @[email protected]
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          82 years ago

          I say start the community, and make a post welcoming arriving redditors, letting them know you don’t have moderators yet, to please offer if they can help, but that they have found their community gathering place and it’s gonna be OK.

        • SpaceBar
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          42 years ago

          We are starting that sub here on lemmy.world. I started one on lemmy.ml before I found the one here. Hopefully the creator will approve some mods, but we can definitely support each other in a federated environment.

    • @[email protected]
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      Maybe look for some aid setting up a place for them on Lemmy and I’ll post the link and how-to there, I figure that’d be a good way to have my reddit account to go out (shadow banned)!

    • Xangria
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      12 years ago

      I’ll survive, but I will really miss if there’s not a replacement for r/cptsd. They’ve been great support.