Please do not cross-post my content to reddit.

This isn't just about r/emacs, where I was given the proper welcome by the only "moderator" of r/emacs. This isn't a personal vendetta. The platform eases people into a mode of thinking that I find rather unproductive.

Furthermore, I have only limited time and space to reply to comments. So far, I have replied to zero on the articles themselves, and everything was external.

If you would like to not make my life harder than it needs to be, please consider the following.

  1. Platforms in general remove my ability to reply to comments as soon as they arise. I have friends that let me know when something like this comes up, but they are doing this as volunteers.
  2. Platforms encourage non-civil interactions. The so-called "moderator" of r/emacs swung the ban hammer after (what I assume their alternative account) took a comprehensive non-constructive dump on the ideas there, and missed the perpetrator. This isn't a "bad mod". This is a failure of the reddit's moderation system.
  3. Platforms externalise the discussion. You no longer have the luxury of seeing the text as you're typing. Happens to me whenever I reply to a comment with a link.
  4. Platforms are taking away freedom. X and Reddit shamelessly train LLMs on the "content". I'd like to have a say, and my say is "if you trained your LLM on my content, your LLM is now free software". I can't exactly enforce this on a platform with terms of dis-service. I can on a self-hosted site.

With all of these things taken into consideration, I would please ask you to not cross-post these to Reddit specifically, but to other social media in general. I can see the value in cross-posting links to Sacha Chua, but I'll do that myself. I can cross-post to system crafters too. Other than that, I would politely ask you not to cross-post.

I have a busy life; and this is becoming enough of a problem that I had to write about it.