One of Reddit’s largest communities is suggesting users move to Discord

The largest Reddit community that is still private as part of the Reddit protest is now encouraging its users to congregate elsewhere: Discord and Substack.

If you currently try to travel r/mailfashionadvicewhich has more than 5 million subscribers, you will be greeted with a page that will suggest you to go to the community discord And substack instead. r/malefashionadvice was a great resource for fashion conversation and guides, and Discord and Substack provide alternative homes for those resources. Specifically, Discord lets community members chat among themselves and post about things like fitness and inspiration, while Substack hosts a Very of the guides.

“One of the other mods writes ‘I’ll never go back, it’s so much better on Discord,’ and this sentiment is pretty much shared,” the mod, who was asked by Zach to go, says in an email. ledge, “The community does a much better job of self-restraint, mainly due to the fact that the ratio of existing regulars to newcomers is currently much higher.”

Substack is not intended to “be a subscription-based thing”; Instead, it was a good place to bring in the subreddit’s guide and maintain formatting, Zach says. greatest guide building a basic wardrobeMore than 2,000 views have come “almost entirely from Discord.”

That said, both Discord and Substack are much smaller than r/malefashionadvice’s subscriber base: Discord has north of 2,000 users, while Substack has about 560 subscribers.

Reddit and many of its largest communities are at loggerheads over new API pricing, which has forced the closure of some popular third-party apps. At the peak of the protest in mid-June, more than 8,000 communities were private, but since then, many communities have reopened, some after Reddit notified mod teams that they would be removed if they did not reopen. will be given.

Reddit is not happy that r/malefashionadvice is still private. On Thursday, the subreddit’s moderators received the following message from a Reddit admin (employee) telling the team they would be replaced if they didn’t reopen the community:

Greetings to everyone

You are getting this message because your community has been closed for 1+ months.

If you are interested in actively moderating this subreddit please reopen it and reply to this modmail within the next 3 days outlining your further plans.

If we don’t get a response, we’ll remove your moderator status and create a new moderator team

In reply to an admin, Zach wrote that the team is actively monitoring and resolving content in their moderation queue and moderation messaging system. Zach said that the community has only been closed for 13 days.

(In June, the subreddit reopened after being closed but only allowed posts about 1700s men’s fashion after the community voted for the change. Mods soon switched the community back to private.) “After it became clear that nothing would really be done on the admin, on the other hand, we realized that a better way to make an impact would be to go private again indefinitely,” said another mod, Walker. asked to leave, tells ledge,

Despite the messages, the moderation team plans to stay there until they are removed. “We expect to be removed from (r/malefashionadvice) as a mod team relatively soon based on communication from the admins,” Walker wrote in a message on Discord. “We would like to take this time to thank everyone who has given so much time and effort over the nearly 14 years of the sub’s history.”

If Reddit installs new mods that reopen the community, Zach believes that although many people will go back, “most of the regular people probably won’t go back,” he says. “Dozens of bots (and human bad actors) plague (r/MaleFashionAdvice) daily, and without the proper modern tools, keeping them out will become even more difficult.”

Reddit did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Other communities are continuing their protest in other ways. r/AccidentalRenaissance, a subreddit focused on images that look like Renaissance paintings, is now private its moderators resigned and is encouraging people to join offshoot communities on Reddit Alternatives cabin And Lemmy, r/PICS, which only allows posts about comedian John Oliver, is asking oliver himself To join the moderation team. (Warner Bros. Discovery did not immediately respond to a request for comment asking if it would do so.)

Over 2,000 subreddits still in dark in protest, according to reddark tracker,