I’ve never been sentimental about a social media site but it’s sad for me to see reddit so clearly killing itself. Pushshift is already banned and Apollo is soon to follow. Reddit will either pivot fully to a mainstream audience or die out. It’s just sad for me to see it doing it to itself.

  • RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    3 年前

    I mourn what it was, yes.

    There was a recent comment I read about how it’s become this incredible resource for the most obscure tech and they were reluctant to delete their posts and accounts because they’d receive random messages of thanks years after the post was made.

    And it’s true. Reddit has become an invaluable resource for these kinds of things. It was always the community and discussion that made reddit great and they want to turn it into yet another swipebait infested serotonin sponge.

    It almost makes me think that when something becomes such an enormous and invaluable public resource, there should be a legal compulsion to archive it before doing anything that will compromise its accessibility.

  • pancakefriday@mindshare.spaceEnglish
    0·
    3 年前

    Honestly, I’ve been waiting on a replacement for a while. They made a lot of poor choices ever since they dumped the AMA mod. Then there’s also this thing about tencent owning a big part of Reddit…

  • PredictiveTextNames@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    3 年前

    It almost doesn’t even feel real. Like, in a few weeks I won’t be using reddit almost at all anymore since RiF will be gone. And yet, I’m still browsing Reddit just as much right now as ever and seeing almost no difference other than salty posts about the API changes on a few subs.

    • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
      0·
      3 年前

      I wonder if that’s how the people in disaster movies feel when they just stand there, watching the tidal wave/asteroid/sharknado heading their way.

  • Mac@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    3 年前

    No, Reddit is trash. What you’re missing is the small communities that made it worth enduring. Those communities are created and inhabited by people like us. They will live on somewhere else—maybe even here.

  • Aaron@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    3 年前

    Can we also have a moment of silence for all the other great link sites that have died?

    Stumbleupon, kuro5hin, digg, fark (still exists technically but as a shell of its former self)

    What was your favorite before reddit?

    • Hexorg@beehaw.orgEnglish
      0·
      3 年前

      Maybe I’m dating myself but before Reddit it was just rss feeds for me 😅

        • Aaron@beehaw.orgEnglish
          0·
          3 年前

          Slashdot isn’t really dead though is it? Still very active, just, not as popular perhaps.

          • Thrashy@beehaw.orgEnglish
            0·
            3 年前

            Sure enough, it is, and my mourning for “imagine a beowulf cluster of…” memes was premature! I was more following along with @Hexorg’s statement of how he consumed news before Reddit.

          • duncesplayed@lemmy.oneEnglish
            0·
            3 年前

            Slashdot is not only still alive, but it’s not even bad.

            It’s not what it used to be, though. Back in the CmdrTaco days, when it was the place to go for Linux news, it felt like it was part of a movement. Now it’s just kind of…there…hanging on. Not bad, just not exciting.

            It’s cool to go into the Slashdot comments these days and still see some 3-digit (and sometimes even 2-digit) UIDs posting after all these years.

  • biscuitsofdoom@beehaw.orgEnglish
    0·
    3 年前

    I’ve checked out for a couple years ago.

    In many ecosystems, wildfires are nature’s way of regenerating the earth,

    • spoonful@beehaw.orgEnglish
      0·
      3 年前

      Reddit needs to die unfortunately. The last 5 years of development was spent on shitty stickers and nfts that no one will even remember. The project has zero vision, no wonder they want to cash out.

      • biscuitsofdoom@beehaw.orgEnglish
        0·
        3 年前

        I’m looking forward to seeing a new concept, from someone. A new idea all together. Like TikTok/vine or IG. Maybe even something not social media related.

        • spoonful@beehaw.orgEnglish
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          3 年前

          Good point. The main issue with Reddit is that producing original content is really difficult and TikTok like take - where making content is as easy as humanly possible - could be very refreshing.

  • anormalusername@beehaw.orgEnglish
    0·
    3 年前

    I felt this way about Twitter early on because Twitter for me was the third social media platform I ever experienced growing up, only with MySpace and Facebook before it.

    It’s sad to see Reddit go this way, but my solace is that the communities that make Reddit will survive one way or another. I’m just hoping Lemmy sees a better adoption than Mastodon has so far. I want both to thrive but I’m especially hoping for Lemmy since I spend/spent more of my time on Reddit.

    • Showervagina@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      0·
      3 年前

      Yeah I feel like Mastoden tries to do too many things at once. It feels like twitter and discord put together.

  • Devgard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    3 年前

    the huge user base allowed for niche communities to form. if lemmy (or any alt) ever makes it to that size, i fear it’ll be a while

    • Wahots@pawb.socialEnglish
      0·
      3 年前

      People will pick up the pieces and form a new community. Though I think a definitive end to reddit would be healthier than a drawn out wasting away. I think the latter is more likely though.

      • Devgard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 年前

        yep, hopefully the drawn out way will actually end in Reddit’s demise, Twitter which is still up 🤦‍♂️

  • nimnim@lemmy.caEnglish
    0·
    3 年前

    I’m still in the anger stage and I can’t understand why Reddit is moving towards a full self-destruction, but I’m glad that Lemmy exists because I believe it can become a suitable alternative over time.

    • Showervagina@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      0·
      3 年前

      I’m going back to bargaining. Maybe I can find a way to still use it even after they kill off old reddit (I’m sure this is next). But I just think of how the soul of the site will be gone. It’ll just be like any facebook group or twitter feed.

  • Andreas@feddit.dkEnglish
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    3 年前

    Nope, not at all. All products and services inevitably kill themselves when they prioritize growth against providing a high-quality service. Infinite growth is impossible and when the service’s growth hits its natural limit, it will introduce quality setbacks to reach the profit goals. I’ll miss the contributors on Reddit who made its communities great, but I also know these communities and their users will survive without Reddit. As for Reddit the corporation itself…

  • ultra@lemmy.mlEnglish
    0·
    3 年前

    I’m not really “mourning” it, but I had a weird feeling, like the end of a great book (series) or movie, like I wish it would have continued more.

    Hiwever after switching to lemmy, the community here seems way more active and friendly, and even though there are less overall users, I get more interaction with my posts and comments, maybe also because they aren’t drowned in a sea of other comments.

    • FeralGibberling@beehaw.orgEnglish
      0·
      3 年前

      I have the same feeling - I feel welcome here even though I spent years on Reddit lurking. I’m not mourning Reddit however as I’ve watched its slow decline over the years. Here’s to many happy years on Lemmy!