We cannot hear, Yay! /m/deaf we still cannot hear!

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POTENTIAL new home for r/deaf pending mod team discussion and vote.

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So, this is a new something is it called an article or a thread? That seems to be in flux. Also much to my chagrin Kbin.social (The big Kbin instance), and Lemmy.ml (a fairly popular Lemmy instance) are being somewhat isolationist. I suspect and hope it's due to inter-compatibility concerns in the so called Fediverse. I and other very knowledgeable deafies are still looking for a best alternative to Reddit. Here on kbin.social I'm still unable to add additional moderators. The official kbin migration discord is not much help so far.

I, myself was inspired to try kbin first, after seeing how well it was working for m/functionalprint, one of my favorite subreddits. One of my comrades has been experimenting with a Lemmy instance and sadly there's no perfect solution.

I'm really impressed with how r/blind has migrated to rblind.com. But, they will admit that for users, Reddit itself is still superior. By default Lemmy lacks keyboard navigation like reddit.

As many of you reading this may know, It's no longer possible for blind moderators to effectively moderate a subreddit. Thus r/blind is currently being moderated only by sighted moderators.

The mods and former mods of r/deaf continue to stand in solidarity with the r/blind and rblind.com community. The formally official discord server has separated itself at least nominally from the subreddit.

You may have noticed that most of the active mods on r/deaf are no longer listed. They have all left in protest on their own ovation. I have decided to stay as we usher in new resources and alternatives to Reddit. My rationale is similar to the quandary that r/blind finds for itself. I don't want to abandon the community before they have some viable alternative. Plus, since I have a choice, I want there to be at least one actual deaf mod.

Thank you all for your patience and support for the community that was once centered on r/deaf.

If you'd like to try the discord server "Deafcord" Here's an invite link.
https://discord.gg/eVkN3vWwgJ

P.S. Why in the heck does kbin.social or whatever it is seem to think that [email protected] is a "related magazine" ?

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If this is going to work it may take a little getting used to. Surely there will be a certain percentage of users who will be completely turned off by the different interface. For example, what you'd call a "post" on Reddit is actually an "article" on kbin. What you're reading now is an article. If you do a new "post" it just puts a little post on the microblog, no matter how long it is. Yeah it's different.

I still don't know how or even if we can use auto moderation bots which we'll no doubt need to do for spam and trolls and people who can't read rules.