startrek.website is a partnership between /r/StarTrek and /r/DaystromInstitute from Reddit, they’ve both locked their subs over there for good. Follow @startrek for all your Trek needs. 🖖 :trek:
You’ve just discovered the main problem with centralized platforms like Reddit, Discord, Twitter. The only thing stopping the mods from making a complete archive of the old platform is the Big Tech owners of Reddit. These corporate interests own all your posts, memes, and DMs, forever.
With federated platforms, the community leadership can easily backup, archive, or transfer everything whenever they like. That’s the power of ownership.
Not only that, but copies of everything now exist on every single instance that’s federated with startrek.website, so its potentially recoverable should something catastrophic happen.
And that’s fine. The mods, or whomever, have every right to go off and form another community, and the participants have every right to follow. The mods DON’T have the right to make the decision for me, restrict the content that I posted to a site they do not own, or otherwise interfere with my right to enjoy the archival content that they did not create. Hopefully the Reddit ownership will force the afflicted communities open sooner rather than later and let us each decide individually, rather than be subject to the whims of some babies that think an entity doesn’t have the right to manage it’s own tech.
No offense but they do have the right, just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean they don’t have the right. Just like reddit admins have the right to open all the closed subs if they want.
The mods DON’T have the right to make the decision for me, restrict the content that I posted to a site they do not own, or otherwise interfere with my right to enjoy the archival content that they did not create.
You’ve just discovered the main problem with centralized platforms like Reddit, Discord, Twitter. The only thing stopping the mods from making a complete archive of the old platform is the Big Tech owners of Reddit. These corporate interests own all your posts, memes, and DMs, forever.
With federated platforms, the community leadership can easily backup, archive, or transfer everything whenever they like. That’s the power of ownership.
Not only that, but copies of everything now exist on every single instance that’s federated with startrek.website, so its potentially recoverable should something catastrophic happen.
And that’s fine. The mods, or whomever, have every right to go off and form another community, and the participants have every right to follow. The mods DON’T have the right to make the decision for me, restrict the content that I posted to a site they do not own, or otherwise interfere with my right to enjoy the archival content that they did not create. Hopefully the Reddit ownership will force the afflicted communities open sooner rather than later and let us each decide individually, rather than be subject to the whims of some babies that think an entity doesn’t have the right to manage it’s own tech.
No offense but they do have the right, just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean they don’t have the right. Just like reddit admins have the right to open all the closed subs if they want.
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