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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] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly, yeah. Reddit has been part of my daily routine for 12 years now. Sure, a lot of the content is junk food for the brain, and reddit has changed a lot during that time, but I've also learned a lot of cool things and had a lot of interesting conversations there. Lemmy looks promising, but it's still very nascent. The userbase is small, it's missing a lot of the niche communities that you can find on reddit, and the tech is glitchy. Overall it feels a lot more like tinier than reddit (which duh, of course it does).

Reddit is also a bad habit that I've wanted to reduce for a while now, so maybe this is the shove I needed.

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

Lemmy did not have the same amount of work as Reddit. I guess it's like day 1 reddit. But it has potential to grow. Maybe