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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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[–] luna@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Beginning to? No. That happened years ago. It was clear several years ago that they were taking the site in a direction I didn't like. Around the time that "new" reddit was released along with the official app.

[–] howdy@thesimplecorner.org 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Exact same for me, the re-design and the official app were major red flags but since they kept old.reddit and my 3rd party app (RIF) I was still happy even though the community of reddit was obviously degrading... I feel like having an alternative that is viable that is completely free of the commercial trappings such as lemmy here is something that is super appealing to me. I think lemmy is still in a very early phase and I am glad to be here to see what happens.

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

"new" reddit and a focus on showing images and video really changed the site. /r/All was often entirely posts with images/video and comments are often just reaction-comments. It really solidified the trend towards a "TLDR" site. I guess they figured their biggest competitor was 9gag or something.