Three will be more updates on that with the main post. That said, I will maintain this Lemmy alternative and the site described in this post for as long as I am able.

My personal opinion is that this is the beginning of the end for reddit, and the PoE community should diversify from being so reliant on a single, externally controlled site. Federated, open source, community hosted content seems like the future if you don't want your hosting platform to use profit as a reason to make it worse. The PoE Wiki made this transition, and I believe the subreddit can too.

I'll make sure it's posted in both places for those who don't want to use reddit anymore!

I'm sure a lot of people's #1 question right now is: Will the /r/pathofexile subreddit come back before Exilecon? The short answer is yes. There will be detail on reddit's communication to us and other subreddits, plus moderator team updates and a community input post this week once we've finished talking to the admins. This was a contentious topic and some of the subreddit mods are resigning over it. Thanks for being patient

Hiya,

We subreddit mods don't want the community harmed either. I'm preparing a post aimed at addressing feedback we've gotten from the community and discussing our plan and how we'll be getting your thoughts on that plan as well. I need to draft it up and run it by the rest of the mods for review, so expect it tomorrow at the earliest.

If you want to read some personal thoughts on Discord (not an official plan) I wrote about the blackout, check in the PoE discord server (discord.gg/pathofexile) starting here and going a few pages below that as well

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I think there is a very high proportion of lurkers on this instance. Do you want to guess how many users are registered here right now? 3500. And yet, only <30 posts or so. 1% commenters/posters to lurkers ratio might be about right.

I plan to keep it up. It does cost a decent bit every month, but with Cloudflare caching most requests, it's not too bad. The place I need more help from is moderators that are familiar with the fediverse and PoE, currently it's just me This community is really cool, so it's really just banning bots or people coming here to post rude stuff and then leave.

If this instance goes down, I believe any content kbin or other sites have mirrored stays up, but new posts wouldn't be visible

If it costs too much I'll set up a Patreon or something, I already have a private one that covers maybe 80% of discord bot costs, but I don't post it anywhere because I don't want to ever profit off of this

So is marking the sub nsfw a viable option? It seems like Reddit is pushing back on that.

Reddit is pushing back, but from talking to other mods in the mod coord, the only ones who have been fully demodded are ones that allowed explicit content. Just marking as NSFW seems okay, the linux subreddits have all done that. PoE even has good justification for going NSFW, the game is rated M for nudity, gore, violence, etc, and the subreddit does use profanity in about 25-30% of all posts (I checked via the poereddit.com database)

So, if the community wants it, I expect we'll do it unless something changes

Have you considered the move r/politicalhumor made by giving everyone (limited) mod powers?

I hadn't heard about it until you saw it, looking at it now huh, that's pretty interesting. I worry about the users who post every day but generally expose lightly-toxic behavior abusing this. I suppose it's only temporary though. Will keep an eye on it

What are your thoughts on Captain Lance’s video?

I saw that and I regret that we didn't make our poll 1) more simple and 2) more clear about what 'nsfw' means. Those were communication failures on our part. It was an honest mistake, but we should've caught it.

Haha. I've been playing this game for 10 years and only have...two mirrors in standard. I should probably ask that Mafia you're telling us about for more 🤔

/r/PathOfExileBuilds has gone private. Their mods might have their own things planned but for the mean time I'll set up a Path Of Exile Build section of this site! You can see it on the "Communities" page at the top

https://pathofexile-discuss.com/c/pathofexilebuilds

(If you're one of the Path of Exile Builds subreddit mods reading this, feel free to shoot me a DM about what you prefer, don't want to step on your toes),

Let me reassure you there -- we don't plan to close it down forever. Additionally, for the duration of the blackout I'm working on a read-only mirror of the subreddit with all the data up until March. The data is exported. Later this weekend I should be able to share a link that lets everyone view the contents of the sub without actually giving reddit any traffic

Would that resolve your concern about guides? Or does the posts are saved mean through the reddit saved tab, and you'd still need to re-find them all

Hi, check out your user settings, there are a few themes there including a dark mode. It's all CSS based so if you find a cool custom theme online, or make one yourself, I can upload it so everyone can use it!

I was curious if most are bots too and found some interesting data

Looking at the list of users by domain

ubuntu$ users | awk -F'/' '{print $3}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
   1563 lemmy.world
   1320 beehaw.org
    172 sh.itjust.works
    164 pathofexile-discuss.com
    149 lemmy.ml
    103 discuss.tchncs.de
     20 lemmy.nz
< censored results below 20 to protect privacy on small instances >
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It seems most people have main accounts elsewhere. Not sure why someone would try making bot accounts elsewhere to then link them here and...not post? 🤷‍♂️

I'm not sure we have statistics on modding from desktop versus PC, but when we mod on mobile, most of us do so from these third party apps that are going away in a few weeks. I think at this point we expect that after killing 3rd party apps, reddit will move forward with removing old.reddit.com, where most of us do our desktop modding too. This was the straw that broke the camel's back, but it seems like the right place to draw the line in the sand to us

Hiya, I believe all of this content was removed within minutes of posting, but @Cyber makes a great point about verification. There are several levels of account verification and anti-spam, anti-bot settings we can tune up. Looks like it's time to increase those a bit. I can turn those up now.

Thanks to everyone who clicked report on that content.

If anyone here is interested in helping to moderate content for this site to make it better, shoot me a DM!

I believe that all of the bots which the PoE reddit uses for reddit moderation either use under the existing limit for queries per minute, or use the legacy API so this increase in QPM doesn't impact them.

The core of the issue is still unresolved: Killing the apps that humans use to moderate (RiF, Apollo, etc.) and forcing them to use an app that is worse for moderating and a much less information-dense UI that makes moderation harder. Threatening that they'll replace entire mod teams who stay closed is also not helping.

All reddit would have to do is lower the API pricing to a feasible cost, and give a sufficient migration period for the developers of 3rd party apps who already are locked in with yearly subscriptions from Reddit users at far under the new cost per user. That IMO would be enough to end the mod strikes. It'd also help to not remove all NSFW content from the API since users won't pay to use an app that's a worse experience, but they might be able to get around that if they go far enough on the other two.

I'd personally be very satisfied if reddit turns back on their changes between now and Exilecon, it's always a very fun time for the community. The date that all the 3rd party reddit apps turn off is within a few days of Exilecon though, so things might be held up right up until the end.

Yep. We expect it too. If the community chooses to continue to keep the subreddit NSFW (we'll re-poll every now and then), we'll push back on the admins about it. That said if they toggle the subreddit to non-nsfw and lock it that way, we'll just have to tell the community it's not possible

We will definitely include this in the poll when the subreddit is forced to reopen!

I'm not sure if there's anything I could say that would convince you we're not getting kickbacks from groups of players with high impact in the PoE economy. (I am not)

I agree with you that there are players who have an outsized amount of control in-game, due to owning mirror services, being a streamer who can change prices by making a video, players that work in teams, flipper guilds, etc.

Posts with evidence about any of this sort of thing are allowed here, feel free to make a detailed post about it! Just don't insult people while doing so, and stick to the facts please.

Am I positive it won't get out of hand? Not entirely, a lot of our mods are retiring and we will not have bandwidth to moderate everything as quickly as we have before.

The community's votes say they want the NSFW option, I'm fine with it too, but the comments seem more against it, it's a bit concerning

It's pretty easy to change the URL. What would you suggest?