Hello there everyone!
I am one of people who decided to migrate from Reddit, but I wasn’t a content creator or mod, just an average user who read some posts, liked one here and there, very rarely commented anything. But as someone with some IT knowledge that also read many posts regarding protest, I dropped the site like a hot potato once it started to show my support for mods.
The kbin experience for now is fine, obviously the site needs to get accustomed to recent user influx one step at a time. I wish the devs the best! Thank for your hard work <3
But the only issue I have is that not every community I have followed transfered here or not every sub found its magazine substitute. While some of them are already growing or I can deal without them, there’re few niche ones that still hold valuable information. I don’t want to help create an illusion that users don’t care at all, but there were times when I found solutions for work related problems there or resources and answers for questions I couldn’t find elsewhere. Not to mention the niche communities. Thus forcing me to go there lurking in these cases.
And here’s my question - how do you feel about it, mods and ex-redditers? In a few months that probably won’t be an issue, but I’m now troubled with that as I want to make moraly right decision.
I’m taking this period of time up until 6/30 as my adjustment period. The truth is, I made my account and immediately logged into Apollo when it was created. When Apollo dies, so does my account. Reddit had been going downhill for years though, and I had tried to find an alternative a while ago; but it wasn’t much more than a half-hearted attempt.
I was actually good on Monday. I think I only accidentally tried to browse Apollo 4-5 times. Tuesday was about the same. Ultimately, I’m trying to re-train my brain so that anytime I catch myself open Apollo, I come over here instead. I don’t have any other social media accounts that are used for something other than comic books. Unfortunately, kbin wasn’t working for me this past week up until Thursday morning.
Now I’m here, and if it sticks around, I’ll be here more.
As far as answering the question of what is morally right? I don’t know that morals are the appropriate consideration. I’m openly spiteful towards Reddit for the API changes and refusing to work with third party developers. They really should be working together; come to a solution where Reddit can start to be profitable, and 3rd party devs can continue making their enhancements without going broke. Instead of bringing them in, Reddit has pushed away.
As a result, I see no reason to create any content at all there at this point. I feel like it’s still a resource for now in terms of solving work related problems. Read those if you need to, but little reason to go there looking at cats, sandwiches or anything else. Eventually, the work resources you were finding over there will be eclipsed by other locations.
Move the icon for your kbin app (I think there is one??) to the place where Apollo used to be. You’ll transition immediately.