This is a bit like the chicken and the egg though. “You have to keep your content on reddit because there’s no strong alternative” just ensures there will never be an alternative. If you really want an alternative you can’t keep supporting the beast.
If you really want an alternative you can’t keep supporting the beast.
It still has to be done in the right order. A smaller scale version has been ongoing for a few years with gaming wikis: fandom . com used to be the place to collect and find any information you wanted about a game, having supplanted GameFAQs old-school style (and actually acquiring it while it fell apart for other reasons, it’s a whole thing). But fandom has been aggressively enshittifying in a lot of ways so many communities abandoned it, either to discord (boo) or wiki.gg (yay). And in their wake, lots of the fandom sites have been intentionally sabotaged to drive engagement to better places.
But! The alternatives were established first because driving people away when there’s no second option makes them do something else entirely and they aren’t going to come knocking when you’re finally ready for guests.
This is a bit like the chicken and the egg though. “You have to keep your content on reddit because there’s no strong alternative” just ensures there will never be an alternative. If you really want an alternative you can’t keep supporting the beast.
It still has to be done in the right order. A smaller scale version has been ongoing for a few years with gaming wikis: fandom . com used to be the place to collect and find any information you wanted about a game, having supplanted GameFAQs old-school style (and actually acquiring it while it fell apart for other reasons, it’s a whole thing). But fandom has been aggressively enshittifying in a lot of ways so many communities abandoned it, either to discord (boo) or wiki.gg (yay). And in their wake, lots of the fandom sites have been intentionally sabotaged to drive engagement to better places.
But! The alternatives were established first because driving people away when there’s no second option makes them do something else entirely and they aren’t going to come knocking when you’re finally ready for guests.