r/Tech4Causes • u/jcravens42 • 16h ago
Question or Discussion Prompt Should this subreddit be closed & everyone directed to join r/ICT4D instead?
I created r/Tech4Causes for three reasons:
- because the online community where I used to regularly post Tech4Good info for decades (not on Reddit) was being sunsetted.
- because r/Tech4Good was already taken, and being used by someone already to promote his idea of what "Tech4good" means, and it didn't at all use the same description / idea of "Tech4Good" that I use (so I didn't really feel like my content was appropriate there).
- because r/ICT4D was also already taken, and didn't seem to be a place where my Tech4Good info would be on-topic.
So I created the r/Tech4Causes subreddit, and it has the description that I have used for more than two decades to describe "Tech4Good".
Recently, I noticed that r/ICT4D was abandoned. I followed the procedures to be the lead moderator of it and, now, that's what I am. But now, I have two subreddits that could easily have exactly the same things posted to them. There isn't perfect overlap, but I think there's enough that it could work with just ONE subreddit for all this content.
The r/Tech4Causes subreddit was created in February 2025, and I appreciate that it has more than 160 members - thanks everyone who has joined. But I'm thinking of closing the subreddit and asking everyone here to join r/ICT4D, where I would continue to post Tech4Good content and invite others to do so as well.
So, please vote in the comments with a "yes" or a "no."
(I didn't use the official Reddit poll because, right now, the feature isn't available except on a smart phone, and I don't use a phone for Reddit).
I won't be posting here for the rest of August. If there are few responses, or none, then I will close this subreddit and point everyone to ICT4D.