Let me answer that. We need a hidden underground forum that doesn’t autoblock any subject heading that ends in a question, one that allows Tor and VPN log ins, one without a stupid Reddit CQS (Contributor Quality Score) that rates experienced posters with tens of thousands of karma points as “low quality” just for logging in from an ip address Reddit doesn’t like or for having an email address that doesn’t end in yahoo, gmail or outlook.com. One where you don’t have to PM a moderator and beg them to allow your post, one without bots (created by Reddit and moderators here) crawling for reasons to block your post, one that doesn’t censor free speech, one that doesn’t have moderators who get lost in the weeds telling us that according to section 5, subsection A, paragraph 4, line 57, this or that subject is off topic “but I’ll allow it anyway”, losing sight of the fact that monero is supposed to be about freedom. How about one that won’t get rid of PMs and force chat upon us in June? Lastly, how about a forum where we won’t have to jump through all of these hoops for the privilege of having all of the great knowledge of our discussions here (that we provide to Reddit for free) be sold to Google for millions of dollars to train Gemini, their LLM AI.

Oh, and one that doesn’t kill 3rd party apps.

So are we all stupid for remaining here? I think so. The only reason I’m still here is because 345,601 other XMR users refuse to migrate to monero.town or some other place and this is the only place my posts get any real exposure.

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    reddit is for the reach
    there was a time when looking up how to troubleshoot a techy thing or what, would type on search engine something like:
    site:reddit.com "keywords"
    the other day made a thread over there and within 5mins after posting it had “18k views” which i was like “aintnoway that’s right, /r/Monero is dry af lol” and instantly thought that it’s just scrapping bots and shits
    reddit is not even usable at this point, can’t post anywhere, if new then gotta wait mod approval which are usually never even happening anyways so i wont even feel bad about it if the whole subreddit gets nuked out of this shitty website eventually
    and if u saw the reddit experiment thing that happened recently with the bots on the “changemyview” subreddit or whatever
    reddit is literally ran by bots for the bots and not even practical for the actual hoomans lol

    still, the reach…
    numbers going up might not matter but the adoption in itself does so i get it if the /r/Monero mods still want to keep it for as long as they can
    but for the community, yeah, reddit just aint about that and we definitely do need something community-oriented, monero.town hasnt had any adoption tho so that’s pretty sad…