That’s a recent quote from Reddit’s VP of community, Laura Nestler. Here’s more of it: This week, Reddit has been telling protesting moderators that if they keep their communities private, the company will take action against them. Any actions could happen as soon as this afternoon.

That’s a recent quote from Reddit’s VP of community, Laura Nestler. Here’s more of it: This week, Reddit has been telling protesting moderators that if they keep their communities private, the company will take action against them. Any actions could happen as soon as this afternoon.

  • Liempong_pagong@lemmy.mlEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    The only thing that makes me sad is we cannot take the years of knowledge stored in reddit with us. Some of those co tributors who posted valuable contributions are not active anymor or some has quietly passed away irl.

    If reddit decides to wall their site, unviewable to non paid subscribers, then it will be like an end of a small scale civilization where poeple go back to basic living,

    I hope in time we can rebuild the same kind of knowledge here.

    • ChrysanthemumIndica@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      101·
      1 year ago

      For me, the loss of AskHistorians was/is/will be the worst. There’s so just much important knowledge there, they’ve changed how I see the world (and I assume that’s true for others as well). I really hope they figure out a way to save some of that, but it won’t be surprising if it just fades away… Just heart breaking.

      I hope we can rebuild some things here, but AskHistorians definitely felt special.

    • justsomeguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      All the trouble shooting help on the sysadmin board…like tears in the rain. I guess chatgpt stole learned from the posts so until that gets completely ruined by being trained to sell us things instead of just providing the information we need, we got some of it saved.

    • Robocopsicle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      In terms of losing knowledge, this sort of happened to a longboarding forum that I was a very active member of for like 8 years. The site, Silverfish Longboarding, had been around since the early 2000s and was a massive repository of information. In 2017, the owner announced he was pulling the plug, and there wasn’t enough notice for members to try to archive the entirety of the website.

      The website played a pretty substantial role in shaping the longboarding industry, with hundreds, if not thousands, of guides on making your own skateboards using different techniques, tutorials for different tricks, etc., which are now gone forever. It was a niche enough sport that a bunch of brands formed on the website, and the owners of bigger companies frequently posted on the website, so you’d have experts having in in-depth discussions with users about the science behind different board and truck designs, wheel shapes, etc.

      The site was basically the de facto knowledge base for longboarding, and there still hasn’t been a replacement as far as I’m aware.