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"run it however you want" This isn't true. You either get in line or your community is banned.

by meatsauce 4y ago

ls15 4y ago
It is also not possible to migrate a community to another platform.
- pmoriarty 4y ago
  It's possible, just not easy.
  - LordKeren 4y ago
    No, it is not possible. Reddit moderators don't even have access to the users that are subscribed to their subreddits. You cannot do anything meaningful on the platform to contact users to let them know you've moved
    - pmoriarty 4y ago
      You could link to an off-site webpage before the ban, and then post details of how to connect to the new site after. And it's not like users couldn't have had contacts between each other and the moderators and couldn't spread the word about the new community. That's not to mention the ability to evade bans to spread the word on Reddit itself, if need be. Spreading the word is actually the relatively easy part... it's migrating all the old content to the new site that isn't made easy by Reddit, because (afaik) it doesn't offer any kind of export feature.. but the site could be scraped.
GuB-42 4y ago
Reddit may have some high profile cases where they banned a subreddit, I find Reddit rather tolerant. For example, there are several longstanding subreddits dealing with kinky sex, drugs, and kinky sex on drugs. Opposite and controversial viewpoints have their subreddits: prolife and prochoice, progun and guncontrol, vim and emacs, etc... Most bans are for really terrible communities, and yes, for a few of them, I think it went a bit too far, I wouldn't have banned the_donald for instance, despite not wanting to have anything to do with them. Really, they do the minimum acceptable for a mainstream service.
- meatsauce 4y ago
  "I find Reddit rather tolerant" Only if you subscribe to the group think. The truth is that reddit is one of the largest collection of bigots on planet earth.

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"run it however you want" This isn't true. You either get in line or your community is banned.

by meatsauce 4y ago

"run it however you want" This isn't true. You either get in line or your community is banned.

ls15 4y ago
It is also not possible to migrate a community to another platform.
- pmoriarty 4y ago
  It's possible, just not easy.
  - LordKeren 4y ago
    No, it is not possible. Reddit moderators don't even have access to the users that are subscribed to their subreddits. You cannot do anything meaningful on the platform to contact users to let them know you've moved
    - pmoriarty 4y ago
      You could link to an off-site webpage before the ban, and then post details of how to connect to the new site after. And it's not like users couldn't have had contacts between each other and the moderators and couldn't spread the word about the new community. That's not to mention the ability to evade bans to spread the word on Reddit itself, if need be. Spreading the word is actually the relatively easy part... it's migrating all the old content to the new site that isn't made easy by Reddit, because (afaik) it doesn't offer any kind of export feature.. but the site could be scraped.
GuB-42 4y ago
Reddit may have some high profile cases where they banned a subreddit, I find Reddit rather tolerant. For example, there are several longstanding subreddits dealing with kinky sex, drugs, and kinky sex on drugs. Opposite and controversial viewpoints have their subreddits: prolife and prochoice, progun and guncontrol, vim and emacs, etc... Most bans are for really terrible communities, and yes, for a few of them, I think it went a bit too far, I wouldn't have banned the_donald for instance, despite not wanting to have anything to do with them. Really, they do the minimum acceptable for a mainstream service.
- meatsauce 4y ago
  "I find Reddit rather tolerant" Only if you subscribe to the group think. The truth is that reddit is one of the largest collection of bigots on planet earth.