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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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[–] Hexorg@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actually liked silly shitposts/memes that reach the top of /r/funny and the like. The good ones were far and in between but there was just so many people posting that you’d see a good one per day

[–] zettajon@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is actually the real reason I joined Lemmy. I joined Reddit back in 2012 and as it grew, it slowly became the crapshoot it is today with memes. Shit, remember when comment replies of just "🤣🤣🤣" was literally THE definition of a downvote-able comment? "Adding nothing to the discussion"

I'm SO happy to get away from the shitposts, and hope the lack of ease of joining the fediverse stays as a barrier against users who post that crap, and they remain on Reddit and TikTok.

[–] Hexorg@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah there’s proper time and place for jokes but it definitely gets annoying when you look for a discussion.