Thanks for adding a small blurb about the article. This should be mandatory on all posts.
this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2025
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My pleasure. I agree!
Agreed, this was super helpful!
I was there when it happened. At the time we recognized it as the force that was going to (and did) ruin USENET (and IRC). We did not recognize it as the force that would also ruin the entire world.
The Lemmy equivalent would be the Eternal June.
Is that correlated with students getting out of school for the summer and joining, or a different event? I have noticed a lower quality of conversation in a number of communities recently.
It's a reference to June 2023, when Lemmy saw a huge spike in users due to the Reddit API controversy.
Perhaps a second wave will be incoming, per this post about a coming Reddit paywall for some content: https://sh.itjust.works/post/32792815
Ah, of course! Thanks for jogging my memory. Despite the growth in users, many of the communities on Lemmy remind me of the old days of BBSes and web foraa. Hopefully the Fediverse will maintain its friendliness and usefulness as it expands.
I remember Eternal September and mourn the continuous death.