One of Reddit's Biggest Communities Is Suggesting Users Move To Discord (theverge.com) 59
r/malefashionadvice, one of the biggest Reddit communities that's still private as part of the Reddit protest, is encouraging its users to move to Discord and Substack. The subreddit has more than 5 million subscribers. The Verge reports: Specifically, the Discord lets members of the community chat amongst themselves and post about things like fits and inspiration, while the Substack hosts a lot of guides. "One of the other mods writes "I will never go back, it's way better on Discord,' and that sentiment is pretty shared," the mod, who asked to go by Zach, says in an email to The Verge. "The community does a lot better job of self-moderating, owing largely to the fact that the ratio of existing regulars to new people is currently extremely high."
The Substack isn't intended to "be a subscription-based thing"; instead, it was a good place to bring over the subreddit's guides and maintain formatting, Zach says. The biggest guide, Building a Basic Wardrobe, is at more than 2,000 views that came "almost entirely from Discord." That said, both the Discord and Substack are far smaller than r/malefashionadvice's subscriber base: the Discord has north of 2,000 users, while the Substack has nearly 560 subscribers.
Reddit seemingly isn't happy that r/malefashionadvice is still private. On Thursday, the subreddit's moderators received the following message from a Reddit admin (employee) telling the team they would be replaced if they don't reopen the community [...]. Despite the message, the moderation team plans to stick around until they are removed. "We expect that we will be removed from [r/malefashionadvice] as a mod team relatively soon based on communications from the admins," Walker wrote in a message on the Discord. "We'd like to take this time to thank everyone who has contributed so much time and effort over almost 14 years of the sub's history."
If Reddit installs new mods that reopen the community, Zach believes that while many people will go back, "most of the regulars probably won't return," he says. "Dozens of bots (and human bad actors) plague [r/malefashionadvice] on the daily, and without proper mod tools, it'll get even harder to keep them out." More than 2,000 subreddits are still dark in protest, according to the Reddark tracker.
The Substack isn't intended to "be a subscription-based thing"; instead, it was a good place to bring over the subreddit's guides and maintain formatting, Zach says. The biggest guide, Building a Basic Wardrobe, is at more than 2,000 views that came "almost entirely from Discord." That said, both the Discord and Substack are far smaller than r/malefashionadvice's subscriber base: the Discord has north of 2,000 users, while the Substack has nearly 560 subscribers.
Reddit seemingly isn't happy that r/malefashionadvice is still private. On Thursday, the subreddit's moderators received the following message from a Reddit admin (employee) telling the team they would be replaced if they don't reopen the community [...]. Despite the message, the moderation team plans to stick around until they are removed. "We expect that we will be removed from [r/malefashionadvice] as a mod team relatively soon based on communications from the admins," Walker wrote in a message on the Discord. "We'd like to take this time to thank everyone who has contributed so much time and effort over almost 14 years of the sub's history."
If Reddit installs new mods that reopen the community, Zach believes that while many people will go back, "most of the regulars probably won't return," he says. "Dozens of bots (and human bad actors) plague [r/malefashionadvice] on the daily, and without proper mod tools, it'll get even harder to keep them out." More than 2,000 subreddits are still dark in protest, according to the Reddark tracker.
Discord is nice, but not discoverable (Score:3, Informative)
I'm on a number of discord channels, it is very nice.
But it's also not at all discoverable.
If the current leaders of this subreddit want to go elsewhere, that's fine, but then the subreddit should be made public and let new people take it over, Reddit is a great place to find people talking about stuff, they could even use it as a platform to promote the discord for new readers.
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Reddit is a great place to find people talking about stuff, they could even use it as a platform to promote the discord for new readers.
I think their point is they don't have the energy or time to do that without tooling now.
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No, it isn't. It's interface is an even bigger clusterfuck than the usual social app crap-sphere.
Plus it has MTX. People bitch about that in video games but somehow think it's ok in some shitty app.
A sub I've never even heard of going there isn't really a large concern, however any sub that joins them will never be seen again by myself.
I know people will find all this very concerning. Get sheared.
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Discord is ... plagued by gatekeepers.
I already said it was nice Harry... you don't have to sell me on it.
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I really like Discord for chatting with friends, but I completely do not understand why anyone thinks it's a replacement for a public message board
Yeah I was a little vague with "not discoverable" but that is exactly what I meant, it's really only good for a private group where adding new members is somewhat rare, or at least expected to be via invite. Public forums you just stumble across or find via search.
What if you threw a party (Score:2)
/s/MaleFashionAdvice is another alternative (Score:2)
No downvotes, no scores, no federation.
What you post on Squabbles, stays on Squabbles. It will not appear on another site or in another app you never heard of.
Very friendly subculture
Male Fashion Advice:
https://squabbles.io/s/MaleFas... [squabbles.io]
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It looks like they avoided some mistakes so far.
Nice friendly place, may "subreddits" have the same name/subjects on Reddit -> No spez, no toxicity.
FWIW you don't know who I am, let alone my generation.
Happy Friday
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I have no Ukrainian heritage, I don't have pronouns on my Twitter bio, I did not submit this story to SlashDot, I am not a Squabbles.io developer.
I wear a t-shirt, black sneakers, and sweat pants every day.
You literally guessed every single item incorrectly. :-)
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Women love guys in sweat pants these days actually.
Re: /s/MaleFashionAdvice is another alternative (Score:2)
LESSER TROLL MAKES INTELLIGENT POST! (Score:1)
I normally crush this little guy and don’t like most of what he has to say. But the lesser troll nailed it here.
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He did imply that he was a fan of Usenet. He would have fit in there very well back in it's hay day.
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"Jesus. A male fashion advice message board? What a fucked up generation."
And he's advertising it on Slashdot. Man, did *you* come to the wrong place!
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It's good to see sexual equality has reached the internet.
Men have been just as interested in their appearance as women: Men just bought their image; cars, watches, suits, women. There was an obvious divide between the 'haves' and 'have nots'. Californication, Hollywood prettification, and metro-sexuals have all changed masculinity. Maybe less wealthy men have found a new way to compete. With the idea that women will do everything that men do, (they don't of course, eg. blue-collar trades) muscles
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Fashion is all about the haves and have nots. The more you have the more fashionable you can be. The more you spend, the more special you must be.
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Fashion is about your choosing what to have and then choosing from what you have. Intelligence, intuition, bravery.
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"Don't you know about the new fashion, honey?
All you need are looks and a whole lotta money."
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That's, if you are stranger to the clothes. To me from the early days, it is way to be with the era, and also be shaping it, challenging, surf the ways. Clothes are manifestations, not boring shopping and being a victim per wallet. From mastering some of your own make, to poking, keeping an eye on outlets and similar spots - it is way to live, enjoying life in full. Nothing to do with the sales' propaganda or so.
It is also made by people - mostly, I am inspired by Italian or French interpreters. Like good f
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> What you post on Squabbles, stays on Squabbles
Unless the mod leaves in which case everything gets deleted.
Sorry but no.
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Usenet (Score:5, Funny)
Time to check out the text-only newsgroups.
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I never left the usenet. ;)
Modern laziness (Score:4, Informative)
Register a .com address. Get one of the available free BBS packages. Get a half decent host. Do the default layout. Add existing mods to moderators of the forum. Send mail to the members that this is the new place.
Congratulations, you're done with migration and it's discoverable and you're not beholden to the fucked up discord TOS. And probably cost you about as much as reddit gold, which is probably prevalent on a forum about vanity for men.
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IDK, some .com addresses are really silly overpriced.
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Not the long and highly specific ones. Those are generally dime a dosen. It's the short, memorable and popular ones that are expensive.
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Well stated. Network effects are huge in terms of creating the environment, but also in sustaining it.
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That's a good point, but this is a group specifically for significantly more vain men than average.
So you could probably collect a salary or two out of it if it's actually as big as OP says. And exclusivity of "oh, we're not like those plebs on reddit, we're special" would probably drive more traffic, not less.
Remember, audiences are different, and audience specifics matter.
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The gift that keeps on giving /s (Score:1)
Lol!! (Score:2)
HAHAHAHAH!!
Move to Lemmy (Score:2)
It's basically Reddit but federated. Feddit if you will. The experience is close enough that the hardest thing is figuring out how to sign up to a server - a weakness of federated systems that they really need to sort out.
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Discord is bad UI (Score:2)
Everything about using Discord is irritating.
In that regard it is identical to Slack.
Any time someone suggests using either of those things, I stop listening.
I literally avoid entire games because their only communities are on Discord.
Isn't a Discord server just a chat room (Score:2)
Or am I using it wrong? I see categories and so forth, but all the content seems to be a disorganized stream of wtf.
Can't open a Discord account because... (Score:2)
They now require you to give them your mobile phone number. .. not going to happen"
Like the MasterChief says, "That's
Get bent Discord and go to hell.
Oh, and for good measure, they also delete your account after a certain delay of inactivity.
So if you were only using Discord for playing a certain game, then stopped playing it, you may have that sort of surprise when trying to get back in it.
Discord is not Reddit (Score:2)