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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • I plan to keep it up. It does cost a decent bit every month, but with Cloudflare caching most requests, it’s not too bad. The place I need more help from is moderators that are familiar with the fediverse and PoE, currently it’s just me This community is really cool, so it’s really just banning bots or people coming here to post rude stuff and then leave.

    If this instance goes down, I believe any content kbin or other sites have mirrored stays up, but new posts wouldn’t be visible

    If it costs too much I’ll set up a Patreon or something, I already have a private one that covers maybe 80% of discord bot costs, but I don’t post it anywhere because I don’t want to ever profit off of this




  • So is marking the sub nsfw a viable option? It seems like Reddit is pushing back on that.

    Reddit is pushing back, but from talking to other mods in the mod coord, the only ones who have been fully demodded are ones that allowed explicit content. Just marking as NSFW seems okay, the linux subreddits have all done that. PoE even has good justification for going NSFW, the game is rated M for nudity, gore, violence, etc, and the subreddit does use profanity in about 25-30% of all posts (I checked via the poereddit.com database)

    So, if the community wants it, I expect we’ll do it unless something changes

    Have you considered the move r/politicalhumor made by giving everyone (limited) mod powers?

    I hadn’t heard about it until you saw it, looking at it now huh, that’s pretty interesting. I worry about the users who post every day but generally expose lightly-toxic behavior abusing this. I suppose it’s only temporary though. Will keep an eye on it

    What are your thoughts on Captain Lance’s video?

    I saw that and I regret that we didn’t make our poll 1) more simple and 2) more clear about what ‘nsfw’ means. Those were communication failures on our part. It was an honest mistake, but we should’ve caught it.



  • Your concerns are super valid. And on the GGG using reddit to communicate I can tell you they stopped doing that already for other reasons a while back. I’m sure we’ll see a big Chris post about PoE 2 at some point but not much else. Fighting toxicity is really really hard. We eliminate 90% of it and it’s still a lot

    Ultimately we have to go with what the community decides here, now that we’ve polled. The community is asking to determine the future and they’ve made the vote clear.

    That said, we will absolutely re-poll the community later (a week? a month?) to ask if they want to stop it, so there will be more opportunities to change it. This protest won’t be forever. I’d say just take a deep breath and keep using the subreddit as before, starting later tonight (PT).












  • Three will be more updates on that with the main post. That said, I will maintain this Lemmy alternative and the site described in this post for as long as I am able.

    My personal opinion is that this is the beginning of the end for reddit, and the PoE community should diversify from being so reliant on a single, externally controlled site. Federated, open source, community hosted content seems like the future if you don’t want your hosting platform to use profit as a reason to make it worse. The PoE Wiki made this transition, and I believe the subreddit can too.