@dangillmor I subscribed to a rather small subreddit. After a brief discussion with the mods, someone decided to open an alternative forum in a self-hosted server.

Currently it has like 20 subscribers or less (compared to the 10K subscribers the official forum has), but it's a start.

Even if the discussions are brief, it does feel like a community, and one with the guarantee that it won't be taken down by a big corporation.

This wouldn't have happened without the blackout.

Slowly but surely, community leaders are starting to wake up.