I realized today that maybe all I need is something to scroll and some comments to read.
Sunday, this place felt dead. But each day the traffic seems to pick up and I miss Reddit less and less.
In a few weeks, I won’t miss Reddit at all (at this pace)
But not for me. I’m forever gone.
And if there are enough power users (lots of comments, posts) like me who feel the same, it will have an impact.
There’s a HUGE middle ground between “nothing changes” and “reddit goes out of business.” As we see with Twitter, you can have a zombie platform that persists but slowly loses inertia month after month.
It’s not that Reddit dies abruptly. It’s that the platform is wounded now and, without attention, will bleed out slowly over many years.
Yes… let’s make people return to the most EXPENSIVE cities on the planet.
I know like three tech workers who permanently moved to Appalachia, the Ozarks, etc. They ain’t coming back. They can get another tech job in 3 days or less. So, they’re just going to do that.
This is a GREAT time for smaller companies who’ve been desperate to hire talent. They will be more than happy to accommodate remote work.
Love the app! Thank you for being RiF’s spiritual successor.
I would have thought so of myself, but yet, here we are
These federated let me things really really remind me of the way Reddit used to be about a decade ago. And frankly, now that I found the Jerboa app, I really don’t miss Reddit at all.
I just wanted to find a place where I could scroll around and chat with other nerds. And that’s basically what Lemmy is.
Quora, basically.
I don’t think I’ve ever successfully read one of those, because Google brings me to the site and then it demands I log in. They even go so far as to blur all the content. It’s really really stupid.
It sure seems like half the herd has wandered off.
It’s funny you post this. Not more than 5 minutes ago I was trying to figure out what was wrong with Firefox on my phone. I kept trying to login over and over again on mobile and it didn’t work.
A week or so ago, I really felt like reddit was nearly an S tier social media platform. It’s heartbreaking to see it completely destroy itself. It’s nearing Twitter in how bad it works.
He defecated through a sunroof!
So, what’s going to be the first NSFW post?
As a red-blooded, straight cisgender male American… I vote for… Saul Goodman’s ass. (Reference to “Better Call Saul”)
Yeah. They shut down subs like fatpeoplehate. So those are the type of people who went to voat.
That’s fine. We make a new place.
That’s the beauty of the internet (and similarly, America). We just find a space to talk.