The ".win" community is expanding to be a reddit replacement: communities.win
And there's new sub communities to check out.
communities.win/c/gaming seems especially relevant to us.
If we want a reddit replacement to take off we're gonna need to participate and make it into what we wish reddit was.
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c/gaming
Does linking like this work?
Oh cool, it does!
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Crap, I just noticed i mispelled the address in the title.
It should be "communities.win".
I had an argument in response to this, but then I read a few threads over there. Even 4chan/v will be more useful than the current state of that sub. I just wanted to read about new games.
I'm still curious what it was.
People are just upvote farming while it's new.
That's a fair evaluation. I'll try them again in a month or two.
But as far as ideal "how would it work," just having a more organic version of Reddit is a start. No (or minimal) shilling, no tyrant mods removing stuff they shouldn't, no brigading. The content would only need to be people talking about new things they tried or upcoming things they want to talk about. That'd be good enough for me.
I get your point about the boycotting, but if I don't keep an ear to the ground, I'll miss any indie creator trying to bring new life to the wasteland. Yet, there's too much junk being produced for me to possibly parse it all through inefficient formats like youtube or journalists/reviewers.