Reddit communities to ‘go dark’ in protest over third-party app charges
www.theguardian.com
Thousands of subreddits to become ‘private’ after plans to charge other companies for access to data

The r***it neovim community is fab and taking part in the go-dark outage protest. I think open source communities are better served by open not for profit, decentralized community-apps like this. The corporaate ones always go bad in the end. Reddit and Github both allowed their data to feed the big tech power grab that is LLMs.

  • phario@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    In the grander scheme i truly believe Forums are where it’s at. It’s a space controlled by the community, can be Open Source and has all the benefits of archival and threads. I hate that every community is moving to Discord or other things where information just can’t be found anymore. If lemmy is any better in that regard remains to be seen. The name “Lemmy” is one of the worst they could have picked when it comes to searching though. Motörhead is just to big in comparison.

    I grew up with the phpforum model as well. It worked well, but I recall that there were reasons why it didn’t continue. I think spam was one issue, but there are still a number of successful forum boards.

    When it comes to forums, who would be hosting them? My understanding is that the advantage of lemmy is that it is hosted on a distributed level.