It’s obvious that Reddit as a company has no respect for its users and less than that for the mods. It’s a thankless, difficult job that isn’t even a paid position. I think a lot of us have probably quit real jobs for less bs than Reddit has pulled.
So why stay? Why bother with protests and such when the company has made it clear they don’t value your work or your opinions? Why not just pull out en masse and let the place burn to the ground?
I am the moderator of a small (~1.9k subscribers) subreddit and I haven’t made the switch yet. I will eventually, but at the moment I feel like I have not gathered enough information in order to completely migrate my community off-site for a) archival purposes and b) functional parity purposes and I feel like taking the subreddit offline without having a solid migration plan will just result in the community dissolving entirely.
it’s a subreddit that’s pretty unique,but niche at the same time - it follows the releases of underground/unsigned/indie music acts in a certain Asian country (it’s not hard to discern what I’m talking about if you look hard enough) and whilst there are other sites on the internet that do the same thing, I feel like what I’ve built on Reddit is unique enough in the as a link aggregating format with search functionality.
sure, I could work at manually posting everything that was ever posted to the subreddit to a new lemmy server, but I’m just one guy, and alas, the chronological documentation will be messed up, which I’d like to preserve as best as possible.
so at the moment, I am thinking about moving my subreddit off the site, but I’m waiting for some utility tools to help me do that.
You should think about making your own site with all the historic reddit data. Something like a static site generator so you can host it for almost free
I’ve been looking for exactly that. And you say that there are other sites for such a thing? It would be cool if you had a site that was basically automated to make redundant the posts on your subreddits, and hopefully federated communities, so that you’ll retain the data in the case a website/instance ever dies.