This post should NOT be taken as some kind of insult towards the mods of the previous subreddit, nor should it be seen as some justification for the dumb crap that Reddit is trying to pull with their API. I am totally against Reddit trying to price gouge people who make their site better.
However, I made a post on the thread that announced the indefinite lockdown that people would not switch sites and ultimately it would harm the community because 75-80% of people wouldn’t switch, and it seems my number was really wrong. It is more like 95%+. I guess I am making this thread to ask if it is worth fracturing the main place for the PoE community to gather (for better or worse)? I think it is worth a legitimate discussion, because I hate the idea that the PoE community is the one getting harmed because of Reddit’s poor decision making. Maybe Reddit will change their tune and this won’t matter, but if they’re not are we just going to stay away from there forever? Unless this site (which is out of control of the mods here) gets massive upgrades then I just don’t ever see it being used at all.
Feel free to give your thoughts and I hope that my post comes across as genuine.
I think path of exile has an extremely accepting community towards new platforms and new 3rf party tools to help them, but lemmy isn’t able to replace reddit overnight and frankly reddit is most active at the start of leagues, although clearly lemmy is far less active. Most people seem to have turned to discord for in depth discussions. I think reddit, even if poe sub comes back, is a bad place to support going forward unless they allow us to use 3rd party apps, imagine GGG banning people for detecting path of building or seeing you’ve been to poe.ninja? If lemmy doesn’t pick up, I’ll still be here until it does, but I’ll get my deep discussion fix on discord for now. Let’s see where this wild ride takes us.
Edit: I think lemmy would explode and possibly catch reddit if we got GGG bex and others to be apart of this community. A huge reason to post on reddit was to be heard by GGG as a side product.