Hi all, as someone who founded r/LondonSocialClub (a place for IRL meet-ups in London) along with a few friends many moons ago, the current clusterfuck at Reddit threatens the community where I met my wife and loads of my closest friends.

There is no appetite at the moment for our inclusive subreddit to move off the grid to the fediverse, but I wanted to put a stake in the ground, just in case.

Edit:

I understand why this is bothersome for some people, but I think this is a reasonable action to take:

  • The community name is unique. I don’t think it’s plausible that another user would want to use this name except to associate themselves with our pre-existing community.

  • This isn’t intended to prevent people from starting another community with the same or similar aim. I’d be delighted to see c/LondonMeetups or anything else pop up. I just don’t want them to use our name. More people hanging with people is always good.

Otherwise, I plan to stick around this instance. I’m pretty done with Reddit now, and I hope in the future many other people feel the same way.

<3

  • VinnyboilerEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Welcome, hope every stays well with LondonSocialClub subreddit and that Reddit don’t necessary go tits up more then it has already and force you to abandon the community you set up over there.

    I don’t necessary agree with parking a community but I can certainly see why you would do it.

    I’m currently running the London community over here and I doubt anytime soon that it will be large enough to host meet-ups. On the same token I really don’t like using Reddit more then I have to and would really appreciate it if you occasionally link to some of the more larger meet-ups here just to be another place for people to access the meet-ups outside of Reddit.