I think it's great that the mod mentioned that some subs, like theirs, are genuine community resources that will make people's lives much harder by being inaccessible. Much like how many actual public services didn't have a great way to interact with the public other than Twitter when Musk took over. I hope a balance is struck, and we can find a better way of building community resources that are accessible but not subject to the whims of power-tripping CEOs.
Yeah, kbeans just makes me chuckle every time I hear it. I'm actually pretty ambivalent about what name is used and maybe in the spirit of federation we end up with a handful of names
Exciting to see such incredible growth in such a short time! I do feel like that until moderation tools improve some instances might do something similar to beehaw. Given beehaw noted it was hopefully a temporary solution and they have stricter content guidelines than most instances.
Completely agree, that backlog of community-sourced information is truly enormous and has helped me so many times. Hopefully we can now start rebuilding it elsewhere.
I agree with a lot that's been said that it's a personal decision. I will say that any time you have a question you would usually go to reddit to answer, try making your own post on kbin instead! Building that backlog of useful conversations somewhere outside of reddit I think will be super useful, so it's at least worth a shot.
Yeah, I’ve had to consciously not click the Reddit links recently when looking for a Mastodon client. On the plus side, it made me write my own post here on kbin asking the same question and the response was great! So glad to be a part of such a helpful community.