Yesterday I read the excellent article by Cory Doctorow: Let the Platforms Burn and this particular anecdote The thing is, network effects are a double-edged sword. People join a service to be with the people they care about. But when the people they care about start to leave, everyone rushes for the exits. Here’s danah [...]
What is the void sub and why don’t you just start one here?
Uh… a sub about nothing.
*Badum tisss
Sounds like a ripoff of r/amish
Rule #1 about amish. You don’t talk about amish.
Rule #2 about amish. You don’t talk about amish!
r/voidlinux. Someone already started one (says unofficial, since the one on reddit is official, run by the Void maintainers), but there are very few posts there. Not enough content to actually get engaged. Plus, the maintainers were the ones that always gave the best advice over at r/voidlinux and they’re not here with no plans to move whatsoever (there was a post on r/voidlinux about what the Void community is going to do in the blackout, it got deleted). They see the subreddit as a means to an end (they just don’t wanna hassle with maintaining a forum, so they use reddit).
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be the change you want to see in the world :D
I understand it’s difficult, but I expect eventually they’ll read the writing on the wall.