Technology
This is the official technology community of Lemmy.ml for all news related to creation and use of technology, and to facilitate civil, meaningful discussion around it.
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Rules:
1: All Lemmy rules apply
2: Do not post low effort posts
3: NEVER post naziped*gore stuff
4: Always post article URLs or their archived version URLs as sources, NOT screenshots. Help the blind users.
5: personal rants of Big Tech CEOs like Elon Musk are unwelcome (does not include posts about their companies affecting wide range of people)
6: no advertisement posts unless verified as legitimate and non-exploitative/non-consumerist
7: crypto related posts, unless essential, are disallowed
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They've lost their reputation. Their actions over the past few weeks have soured at least a portion of their most die-hard users who generate the content for the site.
I myself was an avid user visiting daily and contributing/helping newbies multiple times a day answering the same questions and guiding them in the right direction. That all stopped - I haven't been on the site since the blackout started. I even blocked reddit at the router level so I don't accidentally visit the site.
I've since found two other social media platforms (kbin social and squabbles) to scratch my itch for social interactions. I won't miss reddit - it's not the old reddit it used to be a decade ago.
Maybe when the dust settles I'll return to lurk reddit and laugh at the sh!t show it's become, but I won't return in the capacity I did before
Yeah, this is not the same Reddit from 11 years ago when I joined. I have been lurking, however I haven't posted anything since the blackout. As I started scrubbing my history today, I realized my cake day is on the 26th of June. I plan on quitting then.
So long, thanks for all the fish.