“It’s time we grow up,” says former moderator of jailbait subreddit.

  • javelinexaminer@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I’m actually somewhat happy all this happened now. I’m sad for the 3rd party app devs and everyone who suffers from these decisions. And for the wonderful communities and knowledge bases that were shattered.

    But I think it caused me, and many others, to realize that great community and discussions could still be had on the internet, and that we hadn’t been having those for quite a while over on reddit.

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      1 year ago

      There’s a lot of value in smaller scale too. Not everything needs to be mega-platform level for the mass market. We can have great communities in smaller spaces online too — sometimes even better as a result.

    • James123428@kbin.social
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      It’s been boosting discovery of fediverse and causing an explosion of both traffic and hopefully donations.