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How is Reddit’s crackdown on piracy-mentioning posts going to affect r/Scholar? That’s a subreddit where the guidelines clearly point people to Sci-Hub and Libg

How is Reddit’s crackdown on piracy-mentioning posts going to affect r/Scholar? That’s a subreddit where the guidelines clearly point people to Sci-Hub and Libgen, and if the desired content is not there, people are encouraged to supply that content to those who request it. r/Scholar is very popular in the academic world, especially in countries like India where institutions often lack subscriptions to publication-hosting databases, and I can imagine great disappointment if that subreddit were shut down.

rahuldottech 8y ago
Dunno man, but I hope it survives. Even if it is banned, maybe it'll pop up as a different community elsewhere?
- Aromasin 8y ago
  My Reddit time has dropped to almost 0 with the mass adoption of Discord. Lots of valuable Google Sheets full of resources are pinned in the most niche of Discord servers. It's not an effective swap in many cases, but it's advantages are currently vastly outweighing the disadvantages.
  - mkbkn 8y ago
    I've considered spending more time on Discord than reddit but finding quality Discord servers is hard. How did you find such valuable servers? Could you guide me.
    - abrugsch 8y ago
      mostly from within the communities that you wish to follow... for instance the podcasts and youtube channels surrounding $HOBBY might lead you their own server. then once you're in a couple, and get chatting, people mention other servers, or one of the channels will be dedicated to listing similar or related servers. many will be linked/pinned from subreddits too. what's your interest? I might be able to point you to a few
      - mkbkn 8y ago
        Thanks for the guidance. Most of my interests revolves around business, masterminds, entrepreneurship, freelancing etc.
        Aromasin 8y ago
        Try Disboard.org - I found a few decent ones on there, and slowly networked my way into a few private ones. Some occasionally pop up in HN comments also. I left a lot of servers recently so I'm afraid I don't have any to offer you for those topics specifically.
        mkbkn 8y ago
        Okay. Thanks for the help.
  - LocalH 8y ago
    My only problem with Discord is that it's quite hard to keep organized. Honestly I think a good combination would be a Discord server coupled with a good wiki

rahuldottech 8y ago

Dunno man, but I hope it survives. Even if it is banned, maybe it'll pop up as a different community elsewhere?

Aromasin 8y ago
My Reddit time has dropped to almost 0 with the mass adoption of Discord. Lots of valuable Google Sheets full of resources are pinned in the most niche of Discord servers. It's not an effective swap in many cases, but it's advantages are currently vastly outweighing the disadvantages.
- mkbkn 8y ago
  I've considered spending more time on Discord than reddit but finding quality Discord servers is hard. How did you find such valuable servers? Could you guide me.
  - abrugsch 8y ago
    mostly from within the communities that you wish to follow... for instance the podcasts and youtube channels surrounding $HOBBY might lead you their own server. then once you're in a couple, and get chatting, people mention other servers, or one of the channels will be dedicated to listing similar or related servers. many will be linked/pinned from subreddits too. what's your interest? I might be able to point you to a few
    - mkbkn 8y ago
      Thanks for the guidance. Most of my interests revolves around business, masterminds, entrepreneurship, freelancing etc.
      - Aromasin 8y ago
        Try Disboard.org - I found a few decent ones on there, and slowly networked my way into a few private ones. Some occasionally pop up in HN comments also. I left a lot of servers recently so I'm afraid I don't have any to offer you for those topics specifically.
        mkbkn 8y ago
        Okay. Thanks for the help.
- LocalH 8y ago
  My only problem with Discord is that it's quite hard to keep organized. Honestly I think a good combination would be a Discord server coupled with a good wiki