Is this the Internet version of repeatedly telling your SO how much of a bitch your ex was?
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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It would be more like going to Wendys and telling everyone there how much you hate McDonalds.
at what point is the front page not full of posts about reddit? it's so boring all you can talk about is reddit... nothing original
If you weren't a redditor, or weren't an active one, I can see not understanding the public grief over reddit.
I was a reddit mod. I attended and ran dozens of reddit meetups. I made numerous friends from reddit. I had 2 relationships because of reddit. I watched 2 couples get married because of reddit, and because I introduced my reddit friends to my larp friends, I caused 2 more.
I have an "Open Sourceror" badge on my reddit profile, because 13 years ago I made a patch for reddit so that /r/friends/comments would show comments, including in an RSS feed, so reddit could be used with Gwibber on Ubuntu. Later they killed the RSS feed access if you weren't logged in, but you could still use it through the API. Now they've killed the API too.
reddit wasn't just a link aggregator site. In lots of places it was a source of community, and a source of advice on niche topics. I dropped my reddit scrolling to near zilch, but I still pop in to give advice for those groups, because they're not going to get it elsewhere right now.
So for some, it was just a place for memes, and they can find them elsewhere. For others, it was 14 years of community. It's only been a month. Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me.
You gonna bring those matchmaking vibes to kbin? Let's see a kbin wedding!!!
I was much younger then, up for hanging out with redditors in bars in philly once or more a week. Maybe someday we'll have a kbin/lemmy meetup, but I have yet to run a Hacker News meetup, so Outlook Not So Good.
Philly is a bit of a pain for me, but if it's on a Saturday afternoon, I could make it.
I've thought this a few times now. I left reddit to move on from reddit. Folks here are fiending for their fix lol
You gotta start subbing to communities lol
If I wanted to hear about how Reddit is doing, I would have gone to Reddit... Also, how is this a "Shower Thought"? It's just an obvious observation
Ironically enough, reddit is the worst possible place for news about reddit.