Hey guys, Rule 8 of this community calls out that it is okay to repost from Reddit (this rule preexisted my tenure here), but it seems to be pissing a lot of you off (and I get it too). Since it’s in the rules right now I can’t remove the posts so I am going to leave this post up for a few days to find out if you guys want to change rule 8 to prohibit reposting from Reddit. Personally I hate Reddit, but at the end of the day this community belongs to all of us. Let me know what you want to do and we’ll go with the community consensus.
Meh. I disagree and agree.
First off: I really like the part of the fediverse: you will not get punished for external links. We are not a company that needs the people to stay - we are happy to link to external sources.
I agree because: I do not want people to just have a reddit mirror - that basically just sends reddit more users.
I disagree because: I think in our society the sources will be more and more important:
If it is not OC it would be sad for people like me to not see where it was created - no matter if it’s reddit, instagram or x.
PS: did I say I hate those oligopols? Edit: format