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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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[–] Kostyeah@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't really miss it at all tbh. I wasn't an active poster, but I would lurk every day. At a certain point it got repetitive, where I could guess what the comments would be like on the next post. It got too big to support any meaningful discussion, and devlovled into stupid jokes and puns.

[–] god@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Well if you only browse default communities yes. This is very much not the case in niche communities. There are many very small subreddit that are very productive for problem solving.

[–] Showervagina@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah for sure.

And mods would run wild with power? Remember r/askscience? Mods basically killed it by gatekeeping to the extreme. IMO peak reddit is 2012.