I’ve been the main moderator of the same community since 2016. This evening, i approved my last comment.

I’m leaving for two reasons:

  1. Reddit went public a week ago. I didn’t volunteer to work for a publicly traded company, i volunteered to work for a community. As long as i live under capitalism i accept that my labor will generate value for shareholders, but damned if i ever do it for free. (this is not a Faulkner quote)

  2. April 1st is coming and i’m scared they might do another r/place. Doing in r/place 2022 and 2023 has left me dejected and bitter and i don’t want to feel obligated to participate again.

Leaving felt like ripping myself off of something warm i’ve been comfortably glued to for a long time. Still recommend it for anyone still giving Reddit shareholders free labor

EDIT: there are too many comments to respond to, but i’ve appreciated all of them! Thank you

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
    6·
    8 months ago

    Don’t throw a temper tantrum and delete content, MIGRATE IT.

    That’s something I wish a lot of subs had the foresight to do before the API-block launched. I imagine it’s much more thankless and labor intensive to crawl the useful information from communities now. (But don’t worry, tons of Ais already did! /s)

    I miss forums, too.

    Most of the places that USED to turn up in search results are GONE because there was no point in paying for hosting when a seemingly superior outside solution with greater reach and greater response times existed.

    Also the story with Discord. Hey, you wanna try and shout your question like you’re in the middle of the New York Stock Exchange in the 90’s and hope you get a response? It’s instant tho! Even if the solution will be completely ephemeral and your question will be asked a million more times.

    Sigh.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
      2·
      8 months ago

      No, it’s all good. Yours was the millionth time the question was asked, so instead of an answer you’ll get everyone jumping down you throat to “just do a search.”

      Your search results will return the previous 999,999,999 times the question was asked, and also the same chorus of “just search,” but not the answer. And it’s no good just scrolling to the oldest result, because that time the question was not answered. You need to land somewhere near the hundredth repetition, which was the one where somebody answered the question, but after when nobody answered the question, and also before everyone got tired of the question.

      “But we have THREADS in Discord now! It’s so much better! Especially because no one reads or posts to them!”

      • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
        2·
        8 months ago

        I hate when it also feels like you’re butting into a conversation with some “locals” by asking a question. Lol

        Like with a forum you could just open up with “Hey guys, so I tried to do this and… thanks for any help!”

        But in Discord you feel so awkward just hopping into “#general” because it’s the project’s only support board and going “HEY I TRIED THIS AND IT’S NOT WORKING ANY IDEAS?” as their chat about local weather scrolls your request away. Lmao