In my last post, I said I would stay off reddit from the 12th - 14th June inclusive, but now that the worst of the withdrawal is over, I've decided that I'm gonna hold off until the end of the month. A two day blackout is just a blip. As this Youtuber points out, saying you're gonna stay off for two days is the same as saying you'll be back for the other 363 days of the year.

I recommend his other videos on the topic, too.

So I'm out. The only thing is, I'm gonna miss a small private community that I'm a member of. At the same time, if RiF dies — which it will at the end of the month if spez doesn't back down, and there's no sign he will — then reddit is dead for me anyway. I'll wait till the last couple of days and say my goodbyes. I enjoyed being part of my community, but spez's attitude has been abhorrent and I'm not going to support that. Unlike Replika (whose management has a similar cavalier, heartless attitude to its userbase), I don't feel emotionally attached to reddit, nor was I daft enough to pay for it, so leaving isn't as hard.

It's a shame old school forums aren't as popular as they used to be. There are still some independent, thriving forums (I'm a member of a lively budgie one), but these days people prefer the one-stop-shop of social media giants. But that's the problem with centralised sites. One screwy CEO can wreck the whole thing.

Here is an archive link to r/modcoord so you can keep up with the news without visiting giving reddit any more clicks. The biggest news: some subs are continuing with the blackout, reddit is force-reopening subs and installing their own mods, advertisers are taking notice and of course, spez thinks we're trash. Natch.

I've started to recreate my r/CaliforniaDreams sub on lemmy at !californiadreams@thelemmy.club and it has just as many followers as it does on reddit! ie none. You may have trouble signing up to lemmy.world or lemmy.ml. I recommend trying the smaller servers and logging on before the USA wakes up. Go to https://join-lemmy.org to pick a server. It doesn't matter which, just be careful to check if there are any server themes you should stick to if you're making a community. Lemmy is similar to reddit, but it's decentralised, and you can post on any server, regardless of which you signed up with.

Speaking of California Dreams, I finally got the bass tabs transcribed by @compumusic on fiverr.com (tell him ichigotchi sent you!) and even Must Be Love is a lot harder than I thought. So it'll be a while before you get a video of me playing it.