A few comments in reply to last week's discussion I was booted from access too early to respond to...
/u/sp1ke0killer - here
Yes, I mostly used a 3rd party app for 99% of my Reddit activity outside of writing posts. Initially I thought after the cutoff I'd just be on Reddit less but still pop over to /r/AcademicBiblical to post.
But then spez decided to open his big mouth and say some rather astonishing things seemingly forgetting just who the content on Reddit (their sole true value proposition) belongs to. And then dictated that the site admins pressure communities upset about things to comply or risk being effectively destroyed.
I have a few pet peeves, and one of them is that I don't tolerate bullies very nicely.
Now I very much doubt I'll be back to Reddit at all outside of perhaps jumping back on once my GDPR request is complete to link past posts to mirrors off-site and delete my account leaving unattributed cross-links and comments.
Luckily, it turns out I was wrong a few weeks ago when I said there wasn't really an appropriate alternative to Reddit. I hadn't anticipated most of the 3rd party developers to pivot their client apps to Lemmy with ETA deliveries of a few weeks out. Perhaps upsetting a plethora of talented developers isn't going to turn out to be a tech company's optimal business strategy?
/u/Mormon-No-Moremon - here
This was a very sweet message and sentiment that I was genuinely touched to see.
While for reasons outlined above I doubt I'll return to a promised royal fanfare, I'm reminded of Thomas 81 and the fact that such regal opportunity could only have been possible because of the overwhelming wealth I'd acquired over the years in that sub.
/r/AcademicBiblical may have lost a "Quality Contributor" but I'm losing out on dozens of them, yourself included, which I'm already sorely missing.
That said, I'm also reminded of Thomas 3, and that the respective kingdom is all around and throughout us, not simply here nor there.
This is especially true for a digital kingdom, and the arbitrary borders Reddit decides upon need not be the borders the people agree upon. Especially with Reddit's reliance on Google indexing for its discoverability (thanks to never building a halfway decent search engine), there may be a way to yet have some cake and eat it too. Still reading over Lemmy documentation and planned roadmaps before making a formal recommendation, but this all butts up against what I do and have done for a living, and I suspect there may be rather significant advantages ahead for the sub moderators and users given the relatively low quantity and high quality of the sub discussion. I'll share more here in /c/AcademicBiblical soon.
In any case - thank you again for the sweet sentiment, and for many outstanding discussions (which hopefully have not come to an end)!
/u/thesmartfool - here
Yes, absolutely! I'd love to read it. I'm accessible here on this account from here on out.