r/antiwork
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r/antiwork: A subreddit for those who want to end work, are curious about ending work, want to get the most out of a work-free life, want more …

Unfortunately we could not handle, like, 10,000 more leftists, 100,000 libs, and 20,000 chuds on this board.

Edit: When the sub comes back, there's going to be a lot of introspection and also a lot of vile transphobic shit. You should browse it and influence them during that time. Post your wins here or even better, post them as threads, dunktank style.

There's a lot of meta-discussion, (both good and :reddit-logo:) happening on https://www.reddit.com/r/WorkReform/ - Looks like mostly bad, go flame them and tell people to leave it.

There's also https://www.reddit.com/r/WorkersStrikeBack/ doing meta-discussion

Edit: the main sub is back. Go there are fight fed narratives. Browse new to get a word in early, and post your win screenshots to /c/agitprop

  • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I don’t see how lifeboating them could be much worse than all the WSB losers, but whatever, I don’t keep up with the happenings on r*ddit

    • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Setting aside the social challenges, the site's infrastructure as it stands needs a lot more maintenance than it is getting (the handful of folks who have stepped up to keep the lights on here are heros). If we jump from 400 concurrent users to 4,000 concurrent users it will probably just break. The site runs on a single machine aside from some image caching provided by Cloudfare, whereas platforms like Reddit have redundant servers located all over the world with sharding databases and the capacity to spin up and wind down thousands of additional VMs as needed.

      If we want to entertain this as a possibility, the first step would be getting this site into a state where it can actually withstand the Reddit hug of death. Otherwise, the lifeboat is going to sink to the bottom of the ocean. No one is going to move to a website that doesn't even work - and it needs to work exactly at the moment it will be under the highest load with all the regular users, refugees, wreckers, media, chuds, feds, and drama-seekers descending upon it at exactly the same time. As a strictly technical matter, we shouldn't lifeboat any Reddit community that hits r/all unless this website could withstand hitting r/all itself.

      I've said it before and I'll say it again. If we want to save Reddit communities from being vaporized, WE need to get THEM organized, so members of that community can assemble the resources they need to set up an alternative. We can share our experience and advice from setting up our own community, from the technical aspects to the social and political aspects. A bigger community will have a bigger pool of talent to recruit from. They will have skills and resources at their disposal which we cannot match. It will allow both communities to maintain autonomy, and the prescient demonstration of good will and concern will give this place street cred which will lead to growth of its own. It's basically Maoism 101.

      I barely go to Reddit, but if anyone happens to be familiar with some trusted pillars of the AntiWork community, now is the time to start talking to them about independent infrastructure.