Posts

Announcement: Reddit Alternative and Next Steps

Announcement: Reddit Alternative and Next Steps Now that the protest is over and Secret Project 3 has been released, we're turning our attention to the burning question left over from the protest: where can those members of our community go who are unable (or unwilling) to use Reddit, as a group, to build an additional community somewhere else? The subreddits are not going anywhere for those who wish to remain, but we want to spin up a sister community for those who want to leave. After much research and deliberation, we have settled on Lemmy as the best alternative, and we are actively working with some other similarly situated communities to build out an instance of Lemmy which we think will be a reliable home for those of us who want to relocate, and which also will allow us the freedom to extend the space it provides to meet our specific needs as a community. The new instance will of course have growing pains. There are certainly gaps when it comes to the feature
Post a Comment
Read more

Announcement: Sanderson Subreddits Reopening, Further Protest Plans, and more

Image
  Announcement: Sanderson Subreddits Reopening, Further Protest Plans, and more Background Reddit recently announced changes to API access pricing that are anticipated to result in the death of most commercial third party mobile applications (which twenty percent of our subreddits use to access the site, per our annual survey data), impact the moderability of massive subreddits, and interfere with the ability of blind and visually impaired users to use the platform. In response to these changes, our community voted to go dark for one week in protest, and then hold a follow-up poll. At the end of the one-week closure, we reopened the subreddit and conducted both a poll and a separate survey intended to help us understand the meaning of the results. Due to a sleepy moderator error in setting up the poll, the poll was set to run for three days rather than the two that we announced it would run. We made it clear that we would evaluate after forty-eig
Post a Comment
Read more

Announcement: Sanderson Subreddits Blackout Poll - June 19

  Announcement: Sanderson Subreddits Blackout Poll - June 19 What's Happening Reddit has recently announced major changes to its API policies. These changes are expected to kill off most commercial third party applications, impact the moderability of massive subreddits, and interfere with the ability of blind and visually impaired users to use the platform. More detail about these changes can be found in links in a stickied comment below. Last week our community voted to go dark for one week in protest of these policy changes, and to then hold a follow-up poll to determine our next steps. This includes all of the subreddits our team runs - r/brandonsanderson , r/mistborn , r/cosmere , and r/stormlight_archive , with r/imaginary_cosmere and r/skyward joining us. (in addition to some coordination with r/cremposting ) One week has elapsed and we have now set the subreddits to Restricted so that everyone can participate in voting on what we do next. Note that users can
Post a Comment
Read more

Announcement: We will be going dark on June 12 for a full week to protest Reddit's API changes (Details Inside)

  Announcement: We will be going dark on June 12 for a full week to protest Reddit's API changes (Details Inside)   What's Happening Reddit has recently announced major changes to its API policies. These changes are expected to kill off most commercial third party applications, significantly impact the moderability of massive subreddits, and interfere with the ability of blind and visually impaired users to use the site. More detail about these changes can be found in links in a stickied comment below. What we are doing Based upon the overwhelming results of two community surveys (see here and here ), all of the subreddits our team runs - r/brandonsanderson , r/mistborn , r/cosmere , and r/stormlight_archive - will be going dark for a week effective the first moment it is June 12 anywhere in the world . r/imaginary_cosmere and r/skyward will be joining us. ( r/cremposting is currently planning to shut down for June 12 and June 13 only, but this situation is chang
Post a Comment
Read more