I'm taking this out of the reddit thread to discuss it directly.
Kienan was moaning about how .win is less searchable than reddit and how searchability is somehow vital to the success of sites.
This is patently false. Search is not what determines the success or failure of a site. Having a compelling, active community that people want to participate in and spread word about is what makes or breaks a site.
Every time a person types in communities.win, or selects it from their bookmarks, that was a LOSS for google. A loss for reddit. That was traffic that reached us, without them. IN SPITE of them. A net lost customer to them.
That is the power of the internet.
The power to look at any site and decide "you're dead to me", walk away, and deny them all power and go directly to the sites you actually WANT to use.
To those of you who still use reddit: I doubt your commitment to the great work of defeating reddit. In my eyes you are a failure by your own choices as a consumer. You give them power OVER YOU by your continued patronage.
The only answer is to walk away, make this the best we can, use it for everything, and BE THE CHANGE WE WANT TO SEE.
No, the based man leaving the battlefront and going home to his village to be a family man does not defeat the tyrant. It might make him feel morally in the right, but he's done nothing for the rest of us.
We're not on the right side of history. There is no such thing. Deciding in your heart that you've won does not make it so. It's like people saying if I recycle and don't throw my plastic straws away, I'm saving the oceans. It doesn't work unless everyone does it. Your contribution is meaningless unless you've done something to sway others.
By the way, I don't use reddit, or any mainstream media or social media. I can't stand them. I can't talk to the people there without feeling sick. That's my failure. I'm the man who could no longer stomach the destruction and left the battlefield. I respect those people who are still participating in the war on all fronts.
This all predicated on the fact that we believe people still using reddit are fighting the good fight, tactically trolling and trying to bring people over here, and not just there for the memes. If you don't even believe them, there's no point to the argument.
This isn't a battlefield.
This is two parties across the street from each other competing to see who can get more guests.