@kde Why not move to a decentralized alternative?

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I myself is not a redditor, but this is a hard decision to make indeed. Did Reddit threaten to enforce a moderator override? If it does, the community can be subjected to hostile takeover …… 🤔

@kde it's a very hard choice. If I was in charge to decide, I'd say open it, but in a read only mode. No more new posts. Direct people to Lemmy/kbin for that. It'll only be open for accessing older posts. Since we all know a lot of the search results about fixing issues unfortunately leads to reddit.

@kde well I deleted my account after the whole debacle, so I can't vote, but you probably know what I'd have voted anyway ;)

@kde wait for Reddit to force your sub back open. It will definitely happen, and you'll have to decide whether continuing gift monetizable content and free moderation services to fuel Reddit's IPO is worthwhile.

@kde 🤷‍♂️ Reddit is a company they are going to do company things. I think KDE can be on other platforms to reach more people. I mean leave if things get for real toxic. But, really right now most people in the Fediverse would be aware of KDE. KDE needs to be where it can attract more people.

@kde Stay shut IMO.

Like, I deleted my Reddit account when they got into crypto a good while ago, so KDE related problems I have currently have gone unsolved because the sub is closed off, and I still think it's the right thing to do.

@kde Please wait, and consider a presence on more open alternatives like Lemmy* 🙏 Now would be a great time to start the effort!

(* I'd avoid lemmy.ml though)

@kde I don't like the blackout because it just inconveniences the user

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Who cares, /r/kde is moderated by fanatics who are intolerant of other people and their opinions and that subreddit basically killed the good old KDE forum.

@kde run a poll on Reddit and take the results into consideration only is a certain percentage of active users have voted. Maybe min 50%. Is that doable?

@kde I was a Reddit user and am a member of the subbreddit but Reddit has been getting worse.

The point of the fediverse is KDE can and should run its own Mastodon and KBin instances which connect to everyone else. This grants user choice and kde control.

At the moment Reddit mods do a lot of unpaid work for Reddit. Reddit has made it clear they don't value that work.

Most users don't care about things unless it impacts them. So as long as Mods keep working... #kbin #reddit #kde

@kde as an ex-Redditor, I shut down my subreddit a few days back, and am just posting to Lemmy now in the open Technology community. But I'd certainly a KDE community on Lemmy. KDE is still my daily driver.

@kde I'd say make it read-only and for new posts direct people to Lemmy through sticky posts/comments everywhere

@kde I appreciate the open stance on community ideas. How about merging with forum.kde.org?

@kde I haven't really been back to #Reddit at all, since the blackout. I'm kinda looking at #Lemmy though, as a replacement!

@kde Move to Kbin or Lemmy. Lots of people on there, especially the FOSS types. If anything, you'll probably get more engagement there in the long run.

@kde Can't vote since I deleted my #reddit account. Guess that kind of answers your poll. I'm on #lemmy now and the interactions seem to be more meaningful and less meme-y

@kde I think read-only is the best option. Because keeping It closed makes so some people searching for help on kde software can't access the answer if the answer is on Reddit

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No, move to a fediverse alternative and prove it's the way to go.

@kde Turn the subreddit read-only and pin a post redirecting to an official Lemmy community.

@kde lemmy :)

@kde keep it close, and move permanently to Lemmy.