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

submitted 1 year ago by Showervagina@lemmy.ml to c/chat@beehaw.org

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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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[–] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yea kinda. I think Reddit in general is quite amazing. People harp about toxic social media etc, but there's something truly great about being able to find people of common interests from all around the world.

In general... This is what internet was supposed to be, right.

Plus nobody forces you to deanonymyze yourself. With that comes some pretty cool culture.

Although admittedly I've noticed the mood on the whole site being more sour in the past months to a year... But maybe that's me more than anything.

It's a shame such a model is apparently not sustainable as a business. Maybe it's true that there should be public services fulfilling this purpose.

[–] Bewildebeest@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I'm slowly becoming convinced that actually useful social media is incompatible with being for-profit.

[–] darkfiremp3@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

There were times you would find a small community with a few people and it would be really good.