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[-] Morningcoffee@lemmy.world 150 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think the older core of reddit has always viewed itself as a bottom-up community, rather than a social media platform. Reddit won't die for now, but this is a sobering wakeup call from that idea.

Reddit is no freehaven, it's now just another company, and slowly everyone on it will get squeezed into the businessmold...

[-] Domriso@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago

I certainly never viewed it as a social media site. I joined it as a link aggregator and a way to find information on topics I thought were interesting, not make friends. It always seems odd to me when people refer to it as a social media site.

[-] eee@lemm.ee 34 points 1 year ago

Everything that I liked about reddit was the fact that it was NOT social media. Everything they've done in the last decade (avatars and all that), I've religiously ignored.

[-] HidingUnderHats@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Lol, I told my friend to join Lemmy and he immediately asked how to friend me. Pls no

[-] swnt@feddit.de 14 points 1 year ago

Indeed. Reddit is knowb as the site where you talk with strangers on things you care about - whereas Facebook is talking with people you know about things you don't care about.

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