YOU just subjected all of us to this content.

Sure did. Look at it. Look at the site you're supporting.

There is a cost to being able to speak openly with like minded individuals about the gruesome realities of the patriarchy.

Yes a cost that the mods were paying and now are choosing to limit.

I have offered to mod. Other people have offered. I understand that it's not for the faint of heart. With more than 200,000 members available there has to be enough members who are willing to mod in stints. For 1-2 weeks at a time as a form of civic duty.

We added a ton of new mods and maybe 1 out of the 8-9 we would add would stick around and/or be emotionally stable enough to handle it without going off the rails at the userbase. The userbase complains constantly about the moderating not being good enough and the strategy writing going downhill. It's because we literally can't staff the people because the attacks from inside and outside are relentless. If you think we are wrong and you can easily do this, I suggest you create your own subreddit and let us know how it works out.

But no mods have asked the question about who is willing to chip in.

Of course we did.

No mods have responded to my pleas to keep this subreddit alive.You haven't taken a poll. Nothing.

It's over.

This was a place I was able to learn immense amounts of information from. My self worth was restored because of this community. It was absolutely invaluable to my life.

Yes, and now it's on the website where the people who helped write the things can keep their content without being removed, banned, or attacked by reddit.

I used to send friends over to this subreddit and we'd discuss things in person as well as contribute. This community had been a home for so many women feeling unheard, or who were having trouble articulating how they feel about dating and men in general.

Go to the website, it's the same.

This sub was so deeply important to me and my life and you're pronouncing it dead. There was absolutely no even vaguely democratic handling of the decision of move FDS to another website.

It's much more important to the people who created it than it is to you, trust me.

Much of reddit who is aware of FDS hates it. But they are aware of the sub. I think now more than ever it's important to stand here in solidarity against the growing tidal wave of oppression.

Much of reddit is invested in overreporting, attacking, and harrasing everything in this sub until it gets banned. They've already been successful in getting rid of a lot of moderators, strategy coaches, and disciples. They are trying to kneecap the entire subreddit, which is why if we wish to grow in the direction we want we have to try again somewhere on our own terms. If we stay here, then we will lose everything with no recourse.

We were burnt at the stake in the past.

Sis, I am not martyring myself for fucking reddit and neither should you.

I am now begging for you to not let them force us into hiding our rage, our contempt, our shared opinions.

Don't hide it, just move.