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Community seems dead. Can we mirror reddit posts here? (communick.news)
submitted 2 years ago by rglullis@communick.news to c/nix@lemmy.nix-community.org
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Despite this being the "official" nix community on the Fediverse, it seems quite inactive. Others like !nix@programming.dev and !nixos@infosec.pub are only slightly better.

I'm wondering if the admins would be okay with me configuring my fediverser instance to mirror reddit posts and comments here?

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[–] rglullis@communick.news 3 points 2 years ago

To me it is another data point corroborating two things:

  • The large majority of "reddit protestors" really have a short attention span, and were not really interested in putting a fight against Reddit. As soon as the subs started opening again, it became a display of virtue to say "Fuck /u/spez", but they all happily went back to the status quo.
  • Reddit is taking a look at this and thinking "we won", which will embolden them to be more aggressive towards their plans. Mirroring content now is our best shot at creating a hedge against a future Reddit that will not hesitate to take more user-hostile actions if they think can increase their revenue.