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If you're going to the trouble of moving your community, why would you move from one centralized service to another? I've given this advice to a number of subs so far:

1. Start your own hosted website to post a daily summary of community news.

2. Move your community to a federated service like or .

3. Start a social channel on

The meltdown of Twitter and Reddit is a golden opportunity to let's not squander it.

theverge.com/2023/7/13/2379411

The VergeOne of Reddit’s biggest communities is suggesting users move to DiscordBy Jay Peters

@tilvids Are there simple tutorials that people can follow to set up their own website? I find that the Nerd Level around here is set to 11, and many users like myself would not even know where to start. Truly asking for others, not involved in Reddit at all.

TILvids

@pablor

It depends on what you're willing to pay, and how much work you're willing to do. If you don't mind paying a bit of money ($10-20 a month) then you can get a service like or and use a one-click installer for something like or

If you want to pay as little as possible, you can find a cheaper VPS (or even self-host) and install any of the above, but it's definitely more work and will require some technical trial-and-error.