>”You can set up, say, /r/scienceforall right now and establish the rules you want.” In theory this is a viable solution. In all likelihood, this won’t succeed

>”You can set up, say, /r/scienceforall right now and establish the rules you want.” In theory this is a viable solution. In all likelihood, this won’t succeed and there are probably a dozen offshoots already that no one knows about. I suspect two things would happen. The most likely thing is the subreddit languishes and never gets any traction. But if it somehow does, it is likely to get targeted as a disinformation subreddit or the admins will install their own powermods - as they typically do once subreddits become big enough. Given what we know about how Reddit chooses to display content and run its moderation team, I don’t think any alternative science subreddit would be allowed to successfully exist and be of any real competition to r/science.