azura

That's a community/mindset issue, not a fediverse issue I think. It was useful because that's where the people went, so if the people went somewhere else, the niche communities would thrive there just the same I'd think.
Over the last 10 or so years this centralized mindset has really taken a big hold. Before sites like Reddit, Twitter, FB, etc. existed, the internet was basically all niche communities that all had their own space.
I think especially for niche communities the fediverse could be a fantastic opportunity.

Especially because I'm sure there's a lot more that goes into this that we don't see. Like you gotta have backup strategies for when something unexpected happens. You have to somehow be able to recover from that and you can't just always reload a save. That same runner also has a whole lot of blindfolded super Mario 64 runs some of which were also at gdq and it is amazing to watch. I highly recommend.

I don't know how much of a good fit it might be but maybe Divinity original sin 2?

Am now looking up weird speedrunning challenges like this. It's fantastic

And even relying on those free accessibility focused apps won't help because I'm pretty sure they have a strategy in place for getting rid of those as well. So yeah.

I really do hope that's the case. I'm a bit skeptical but I really do wish.

A lot of mods were using 3rd party apps right? So maybe the quality degrades significantly enough.

they've basically already said they won't. With communities only shutting down for a day or two, it really doesn't create any incentive at all for Reddit to fix their ways. They'll just wait it out, things will go back to how they were before, and nobody has achieved anything at all. Either we actually make it hurt by staying away, or we won't and then they know it's OK to do this kind of thing, and they'll keep doing it because at worst people will just stay away for a day or two. Not a big deal.
And not even that. There are still an incredible amount of people active on there afaik. So I've given up at trying to convince people to stay. Let the people who want to leave leave. Our communities might just be better off for it. I'm definitely sticking around. Fuck Reddit.

it warms my heart to see so many people slowly figuring this out. This is what the internet was meant to be all along.

Just save your instance as "reddit"/"apollo"/whatever on your phone. This is the trick they wish you didn't know.

Don't forget us kbin users too! We're all in the same boat now

sshhhh don't tell my boss I'm here