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Is anyone else beginning to mourn reddit? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mourn the site that allowed toxic subs like the_donald or worse to recruit and prosper? Hell no. I will mourn small communities if they leave, but I don't believe they will. Lemmy is a good idea, but judging from the twitter / mastodon migration (or lack thererof) I am not holding my breath. The fact Lemmy's main devs are tankies makes mass adoption even less likely

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What does "tankies" mean?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hardcore communists, so extreme in many things they are indistinguishable from far right extremists. For example they support Russia in the Ukraine. The Lemmy devs are so bad they are fans of North Korea and Stalin. TBH they feel like parody or a psyop effort at times

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Oh. Yikes haha thanks for the info. Sounds like I picked the right instance 😅