[dredmorbius]

This.

As a decade+ user with a modestly successful personal subreddit ... when it became painfully obvious that Reddit would press to the point of pain in its new feature development, I signed out.

That subreddit's "cake day" automated submission ... rather took the cake!

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/quxwoo/happy_c...

I've not completely abandoned Reddit. But I avoid the site where at all possible.

Also relevant:

"Don't contribute anything relevant in web forums" (2020)

https://karl-voit.at/2020/10/23/avoid-web-forums/

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30328120)

Top comment on that thread specifically addresses Reddit.

[toomuchtodo]

So, I mod a subreddit that provides a somewhat important volunteer service for subscribers. The details aren’t important. My question is: what would be the most ideal off boarding experience to bring these folks to another platform from a subreddit?

At first, I thought about forking teddit in such a way that the hosted app would have a domain, and would use teddit to proxy to the Reddit subreddit. I’d bootstrap existing users using oauth attestations, because the day will come where we’ll want to cut loose from Reddit but this would allow for sticky identities cross platform (unless I use Keybase instead for crypto identity attestation).

And now I’m thinking about just using a mailing list and hosted Discourse instance, and I don’t think Mastadon is a fit for this use case.

Thoughts?

[dredmorbius]

I'm partial to email lists, generally. They're still the open-standard leader, and offer the additional benefit that the directory is open, even to members, at least for active participants.

I'd also strongly recommend setting up an independent blog, with an RSS/Atom feed. If nothing else, that's a contact and notification point for further communications.

There's interesting stuff going on in the Federated space, but I don't see the options I've used (Diaspora*, Mastodon) as sufficient yet. These might be worth spinning up as an experiment though. See also Friendica and Hubzilla.

The D Language discussion is based on, of all things, NNTP (Usenet), though it also presents a Web-based front-end. That might be worth looking at. I do have concerns over Usenet at scale, but within a closed organisation and with a moderated newsgroup or groups, it should be viable.

Depending on your user-base, mobile support may be essential. That's ... something of a concern, though a good website design might be sufficient.

Otherwise, I'm not really enthusiastic about much of anything at the moment.