If you're going to the trouble of moving your community, why would you move from one centralized service to another? I've given this advice to a number of #reddit subs so far:
Start your own hosted website to post a daily summary of community news.
Move your community to a federated service like #Lemmy or #Kbin.
@tilvids from my analysis what pays off the most if you need to promote your work is maintaining my own website and only promoting it on social networks from that main base & it's not exactly the easiest way but if you're going to be semi-serious about what you're doing then it's probably the best way. I would give the same or similar advice to maintainers of these communities as well
@tilvids I completely agree here. Why move from one big mega corporations social media service that is literally falling apart to another one that will soon follow? It’s time to make sure that nobody owns social media and we all go #decentralised. No more stupid API changes, no more community riot uprising, no more megacorps harvesting our data for third parties and no more “big blackouts”. It’s time we take back control of social media and go decentralised.
@tilvids Are there simple tutorials that people can follow to set up their own website? I find that the Nerd Level around here is set to 11, and many users like myself would not even know where to start. Truly asking for others, not involved in Reddit at all.
It depends on what you're willing to pay, and how much work you're willing to do. If you don't mind paying a bit of money ($10-20 a month) then you can get a service like #DigitalOcean or #Linode and use a one-click installer for something like #Grav#Ghost or #Hugo
If you want to pay as little as possible, you can find a cheaper VPS (or even self-host) and install any of the above, but it's definitely more work and will require some technical trial-and-error.
That's in the context of having a profile/channel that represents your group, as opposed to an individual. More likely, just a means of converting information outward.
@tilvids Oh, like how showerthoughts@lemmy.world as a profile is an automated "megaphone" for everyone in that community? Lemmy and kbin are services that automate that for you; are there other scripts that just focus on automating a "social channel"?
Or is that third option more a manual process (some human actually has the credentials to the account, and manually re-shares appropriate content); sort of like what you as the tilvids profile are?
The details are probably up to the community to decide; both are probably reasonable solutions. If there are opinionated voices in the community, the human approach might work. Conversely, if it's just a lot of news being posted, a bot aggregator might be enough.
While there are drawbacks (or more accurately, challenges), in my opinion none of them outweigh the importance of clawing back the Internet from massive corporate interests funded by a neverending series of invasive ads.
@tilvids That’s fair that you stated that’s in your opinion and I’m not against the opinion of people taking power away from corporations. That’s not the perspective I was solely focusing on. I’m talking about millions of people used to accessing a subreddit that’s over a decade old. People want familiar, simple and where their family, friends and peers are.
Reddit was unfamiliar for them at one point as well. Discord is going to be unfamiliar to everyone migrating there that hasn't used it before. As long as people are having to go through the hassle of being forced to learn something new, it might as well be for a greater-good.
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