It was a thing communicated by the mod team, thedonald.win was first as refugees from r/thedonald needed a home but as the demand for other .wins came up largely caused by censorship, others were created with communities.win being an administrative type site hosting the central 'genuine' .win site listing and list of coding updates that would be deployed to all the .wins - the threat of anyone creating a malicious .win and trying to steal login details from people who think the rogue .win is another affiliated one in our grouping is still present.

You're right in that it has been an ongoing process driven by an organic demand to get this far that has not really been communicated in a simple way that makes sense to new arrivals - Create account on one, it works everywhere.

reddit may always be a niche for random small and dedicated communities that dont ever venture into 'controversial' topics that get them banned. However relentless crackdowns on anyone that steps out of line (like supporting POTUS.. the horror!) will only atrophy the site to the point where it ceases being relevant... a myspace type death is in their future I think.

It was a thing communicated by the mod team, thedonald.win was first as refugees from r/thedonald needed a home but as the demand for other .wins came up largely caused by censorship, others were created with communities.win being an administrative type site hosting the central 'genuine' .win site listing and list of coding updates that would be deployed to all the .wins - the threat of anyone creating a malicious .win and trying to steal login details from people who think the rogue .win is another affiliated one in our grouping is still present.

You're right in that it has been an ongoing process driven by an organic demand to get this far that has not really been communicated in a simple way that makes sense to new arrivals - Create account on one, it works everywhere.

reddit may always be a niche for random small and dedicated communities that dont ever venture into 'controversial' topics that get them banned. However relentless crackdowns on anyone that steps out of like (like supporting POTUS.. the horror!) will only atrophy the site to the point where it ceases being relevant... a myspace type death is in their future I think.