Hello there everyone!

I am one of people who decided to migrate from Reddit, but I wasn’t a content creator or mod, just an average user who read some posts, liked one here and there, very rarely commented anything. But as someone with some IT knowledge that also read many posts regarding protest, I dropped the site like a hot potato once it started to show my support for mods.

The kbin experience for now is fine, obviously the site needs to get accustomed to recent user influx one step at a time. I wish the devs the best! Thank for your hard work <3

But the only issue I have is that not every community I have followed transfered here or not every sub found its magazine substitute. While some of them are already growing or I can deal without them, there’re few niche ones that still hold valuable information. I don’t want to help create an illusion that users don’t care at all, but there were times when I found solutions for work related problems there or resources and answers for questions I couldn’t find elsewhere. Not to mention the niche communities. Thus forcing me to go there lurking in these cases.

And here’s my question - how do you feel about it, mods and ex-redditers? In a few months that probably won’t be an issue, but I’m now troubled with that as I want to make moraly right decision.

  • DeGandalf@kbin.social
    37·
    1 year ago

    imho the important thing is to not give Reddit any money, so I’ll also continue using it, but only with an adblocker

    • ykonstant@kbin.social
      20·
      1 year ago

      By far the most precious resource Reddit gets from you is your insight; Reddit needs posts, especially posts with good insights on specific topics. This is the treasure trove they are sitting on and the value proposition for shareholders: a gigantic collection of long-form discussions on all kinds of niche topics that can be used for targeted and generic AI training.

      So by continuing to use reddit, you are providing them with the most precious resource they seek anyway. This is why I am anxious to see a genuine alternative to reddit.

      • DeGandalf@kbin.social
        3·
        1 year ago

        Yes, I get what you mean. I’ll stop posting content and comments, but I’ll keep looking at posts of interesting communities. Since I have quite a few posts made there so far, I’m also considering deleting them, but I’m not sure about that yet.

    • IncognitoErgoSum@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      I don’t think there’s anything wrong with continuing to use reddit if you want to (I am, for now), but just be aware that part of the reason they want to block free API access is likely so they can sell all of the content they’ve collected for use in training large language models. If you post there, you’re contributing.