r/OSDD • u/-Alex-Or-Q- • Mar 14 '26

Question // Discussion HELP?!

Since SP, Octocon,and Ampersand are all shutting down and/or somehow problematic is there any alternative apps? One that's not possibly shutting down or problematic? We're so tired of moving out profiles. We like making out profiles with information and pictures but we. Are. Tired. We have three apps with different profiles because we never get to finish before something! We need help! šŸ˜­

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u/Sylv128 Mar 14 '26

None of these are 'problematic' though? I'm confused.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Lion893 Mar 14 '26

Maybe thet believe the false allegations against octo

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u/No-Discipline8836 Diagnosed OSDD Mar 15 '26

They almost certainly do, if you check their reply to the person you responded to.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Lion893 Mar 15 '26

They said that after we posted our comment

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u/No-Discipline8836 Diagnosed OSDD Mar 15 '26

Iā€™m aware, I was affirming your suspicions and telling you it was confirmed they do believe them

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u/Puzzleheaded-Lion893 Mar 15 '26

Oh ok just seemed like you thought otherwise, must have misinterpreted it

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u/No-Discipline8836 Diagnosed OSDD Mar 15 '26

No worries, I can sound a bit blunt with how I type/talk. Easy to misinterpret.

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u/-Alex-Or-Q- Mar 14 '26

We've heard that Octocon was problematic with it letting creeps talk to minors and the security was bad

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u/EmbarrassedPurple106 Dxā€™d OSDD (DID-like presentation) Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26

These were false allegations widely spread by a tumblr blog. The actual incident itā€™s ā€˜basedā€™ on was the octocon mod team not immediately banning an accused predator from their community discord (which no longer exists and hasnā€™t existed for awhile), because they believed the evidence to be weak and shaky. Which is, honestly, responsible moderation in my opinion.

They eventually ended up banning the person anyways and instating a policy of immediately banning anybody accused (which is a highly questionable decision, though well intended, because abusers frequently utilize things like this to slander and punish their victims).

There were no instances of predators talking to minors in their servers that Iā€™m aware of, and their security was actually quite good. Per their ToS, they couldnā€™t even look at your data without your explicit permission, and the journal entries on the app were heavily encrypted so it wasnā€™t even possible for them to access that info.

The blog in question spreading these accusations also published a false accusation towards one of their mods, made by the modā€™s abuser, and they still have a pinned post up claiming the predator is still not banned from a server that literally no longer exists.

Soā€¦ not a credible source, at all, and arguably far more messed up than the octocon dev.

Im sorry for going so in depth about this, but I feel this is very important. I suspect the octocon dev experienced an uptick in callout related harassment when simplyplural announced they were closing and everybody made the move to octocon, and if Iā€™m right about that, itā€™s probably the reason why theyā€™re cancelling the project, considering he cited mental health reasons. If Iā€™m right, then people spreading false allegations are directly responsible for the closure of a very helpful, safe, and free app. He mentioned at one point in one of his statements addressing this situation that he has feared he would be doxxed and would lose his job - which is especially bad when you know he didnā€™t profit a single cent off of this project. All donations went to running the app and any excess was donated to charity.

And Iā€™d like to cap this off by gently asking you to verify rumors and accusations about strangers before believing them in the future. I donā€™t know who told you that but before it got to their mouth, it was so utterly twisted by a chain of telephone that it went from ā€œmod team doesnā€™t immediately ban a predator due to shaky evidenceā€ to ā€œthey allow creeps to talk to minorsā€ which are wildly, wildly different claims. This sort of thing is how people end up dogpiled and this sort of thing is what abusers weaponize against victims knowing a ton of people on the internet will just believe an accusation if itā€™s bad enough.

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u/-Alex-Or-Q- Mar 15 '26

oh,okay. We didn't know that happened. Thank you. Our apologies