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Is anyone else beginning to mourn reddit? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years 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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[-] aaronbieber@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago

Can we also have a moment of silence for all the other great link sites that have died?

Stumbleupon, kuro5hin, digg, fark (still exists technically but as a shell of its former self)

What was your favorite before reddit?

[-] Hexorg@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago

Maybe I’m dating myself but before Reddit it was just rss feeds for me 😅

[-] Thrashy@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago

/. for me. Pass the aspirin...

[-] aaronbieber@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago

Slashdot isn't really dead though is it? Still very active, just, not as popular perhaps.

[-] coldredlight@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago

A simulacra shambles on.

[-] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Slashdot is not only still alive, but it's not even bad.

It's not what it used to be, though. Back in the CmdrTaco days, when it was the place to go for Linux news, it felt like it was part of a movement. Now it's just kind of...there...hanging on. Not bad, just not exciting.

It's cool to go into the Slashdot comments these days and still see some 3-digit (and sometimes even 2-digit) UIDs posting after all these years.

[-] Thrashy@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

Sure enough, it is, and my mourning for "imagine a beowulf cluster of..." memes was premature! I was more following along with @Hexorg's statement of how he consumed news before Reddit.

[-] RuefulSkinkMotel@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Bannination and its successor zombn. Small, funny, and I met my wife there!

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