Not only that but reddit isn’t allowing you to make new accounts as of today, without having a Gmail account first.

What? So you can’t use any other email provider but Google to sign up for a Reddit account?

EDIT: I actually don’t think this is correct. I just went to the sign up page and it does have buttons to create an account using Google or Apple OAuth (I assume) but there is a field under those two buttons for just any email. Put in my Outlook.com email and it accepted it and went to the next page where I could create my user name and password.

I assume on /r?

I don’t know who would do that. The only reason I view all on Lemmy is because there isn’t enough activity to limit what I see. Despite the downhill trajectory on reddit, it isn’t at that point yet.

I’m pretty unfamilar with Discord, was after my time. But for the little I do know, I think you’re probably right. MFA might be a different kind of community where smaller more real time chats like Discord can work, but for the majority it doesn’t seem like it would be a good forum/reddit replacement.

It’s certainly not for me at any rate.

And ironically enough I just saw a story where Reddit followed through on its threats to remove the mods. So they removed them all and the sub is back open, but locked so no one can post.

Definitely. The mods that pretended to give a damn and then punking out were extremely disappointing.

It’s fine enough to disagree with the protests over 3rd party apps. And at the end of the day it is such a small issue. But if you’re going to do something, be about it.

Didn’t /r/malefashionadvice explicitly close the subreddit and recommend everyone go to their Discord? I can’t check it now since I’m at work, but if I remember right, it is still closed with the mods saying they expect to be removed at any point.