Title. With the ubc subreddit opening back up again it’ll probably be much harder to enough of a network effect going unless we have some coordination with the reddit mods.
Personally I’m trying to transition away from user-hostile software and minimize my exposure to proprietary software in general. The reddit API changes didn’t affect me personally but I don’t want to support the company by continuing to use it. How about you guys?
That’s basically it for me. I’m planning on staying subscribed to a few communities and contributing the same way I do on Reddit, or maybe a little bit more once the third party apps disappear. If this subreddit doesn’t take off the same way, I’m fine with that. It’s nice to have a second place to go to if something breaks on the other one.
I’m counting on a decent number of people trickling in though. Not 90k, but it’ll get there
Decided to move away from Reddit thanks to all the issues with the company and their behaviour with the api, and then response afterwards to the blackout. Honestly much loving it here, though yeah shame for the smaller scale here. But I mean, might get some degree of a network overtime. Just put up some fliers or smth around campus i guess ahah
Another way would be to post helpful content in this community and then link to it on /r/UBC
We could discuss other promotion options around the start of term, but I’d prefer letting the community grow based on people finding useful content. That’s how /r/UBC grew so big since I don’t think they advertised much, past that one time years ago
What about mirroring certain discussion posts/comments (by hand, just crossposting them) from reddit to here, and answering them here?
That sounds good!
I’ve been using it since before this landing from Reddit. First of all, to participate in a free platform and not dependent on large multinationals. I do it, first of all, in the hope that small local communities will emerge that allow us to talk about our local problems and that they can be shared with other communities through the federation.
Let them be software platforms that work from the local to the global and not the other way around, as the big corporations pretend.
