A few days ago I created a reddit account just for “taking part in the discussion.” However, here are the absolutely frustrating experiences I had:
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You can create an account if you give reddit your email, but you CANNOT login via reddit’s onion URL. Reddit will keep having “we had a problem,” and “an error with the server occurred”, after you have solved your 5th captcha with a screenful of bicycles to click on. No way to login anonymously.
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You will have to login to your account via the clearnet URL of reddit. Damn… But OK, everything for " contributing to the community, we are a diverse one, after all right? Make your voice heard". Alright. I login on clearnet. Reddit still gives me a red banner with some error message, like a sack of shit splashing on my desk, but lets me in this time. Good, finally “be a part of the conversation!”. Start my first thread announcing my Turkish translation of monero.garden (see MoneroBahce.com). Hit send. Instantly reddit filters my post. My post and voice are not visible whatsoever.
Seriously, why are we taking reddit seriously as a discussion platform; and moreover, why are we making it the centrepiece of written, long-form Monero discussion? Why is that place have such a large role in taking a pulse of the Monero users?
Because of this post here, I’ve been on Reddit again for a long time. It worked flawlessly in the Tor browser. Without user login, just to read.
If someone wants to discuss a Reddit post, they can link that post here on Monero.Town. Then, if the posts here are better than the posts on Reddit, users will start linking to them here. This will eventually bring users here.
That’s not the issue here. The issue is: a new monero community member cannot create a new reddit account and partake in the discussions there. You absolutely cannot create new threads on reddit as a new user (ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE REGISTERED VIA THE ONION URL OF REDDIT). You will 1) get filtered by reddit’s auto-filters 2) get filtered by monero subreddit mods’ autofilters.
That sounds like a good transition strategy to the Town.
Someone who is active on Reddit can post a link to the Town here as early as possible in the discussion in posts that were originally only available on Reddit but are now also being discussed here.
Or even just reply/contribute to the discussion here but quote there on Reddit and link to here.