Like for the past few years, browsing reddit is basically a daily routine for me. Now Reddit is dying, I feel like a part of me died. A website filled with many years of content… will soon be gone. I heard rumours that they are planning to purge the site of “undesirable” content before their IPO. I fear same thing will happen to youtube. I don’t have the resources to save all the content online, and watching sites die is painful. Reddit’s death triggered my fear for losing all those amazing youtube channels that I occasionally binge rewatch. (Does anyone else rewatch youtube videos over and over on a weekly basis? Maybe I’m just weird.
So this is what the internet is? Just a cycle of sites being born and dying, just like humans being born and dying. Omg whats the meaning of life…
Umm… sorry for the weird existential monologue. Lol
I hear you. Opening Apollo was basically the first thing I did when waking up (don’t judge me Lol). I’ve been on reddit for over 10 years and I credit it as playing a major role in pulling me away from the far right. I’ve learned so much on it, and it really feels like the end of an era. You can’t help but get a bit emotional. Anyway I hope that lemmy can fill that gap, I’ve been really enjoying the community here, everyone is quite friendly.
If you spend enough time around here, you just might get pulled away from the center-right ;)
Lol I already had my “enlightened centrism” phase on my way to the left
Good for you!
Hahaha glad to hear it my friend
federation helps a great deal to mitigate this type of centralized power abuse. communities built up reddit, communities will build up Lemmy. honestly, Lemmy (the network) is much more important than reddit (the site)
Reddit pulled me away from the far right as well!
Wait you’re telling me, the only reason you’re not a nazi is because of reddit? 🤔
I don’t know if you’d really call it far right or not, but at one point in my life I was:
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Pro gun
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Anti-LGBTQ
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Hated the left
I was more liberal on other things such as women’s rights and loving america to the detriment of everything else.
Nowdays I’d say I’m liberal but moving more left slowly. It started in college where I was actually exposed to other ways of life, but reddit continued that.
I had a similar experience. Reddit both led me into a hate community (TiA) and helped pull me out of it later. It’s also the place that helped me realize I’m non-binary.
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I expected to feel a lot of grief, but Lemmy has matured extremely quickly even since I joined like 4 days ago or so and at this point I’m just excited.
Some of us have been through this sort of thing before. At the end of the day, it’s a normal and predictable result of using a corporate/walled garden website. The great news is that there is a shift for many toward alternatives in the fediverse. Not to say that content loss is never going to be an issue again, but since everything is open-ended, it should be a bit more resilient to various “business decisions” that can cause it to be lost.
I hope it motivates many to become web archivists. If anybody is able to financially invest in digital storage, I encourage them to join up at !datahoarder@lemmy.ml and keep copies of all the good stuff you find, including YouTube channels!
I think that when it comes to video content, that is generally the most difficult to store and distribute. Peertube exists and the fediverse equivalent for free as in freedom and beer content, however creators who want to monetize their content are also finding paths that they are in control of which is also great. By that I mean services like Nebula and CuriosityHub. Paywalls aren’t so bad if everyone behind it is putting out premium level content (although I do have some bones to pick with those services in their existing state).
I’ve been copying the wikis and important post of some subreddits I used to visit, now I’m sad I didn’t copy more.
I’ve seen many things come and go from the internet so I’m actually glad big tech is in decline. Those companies have way too much power.
I’ve been on the internet since pretty much the start so I’ve seen dozens of great communities come and go. Normally they reach some kind of malthusian breaking point where they collapse under their own weight, I think this is the first time where sheer greed caused the end though.
So yes, this is the cycle of the internet. Death is actually good for an ecosystem though, it means that new things can evolve, such as the fediverse.
I do feel sad for what will be lost though, and every time I load Apollo to remember this great app with all the care and attention put in to it will be gone at the end of the month.
Same, I am going through the same exact feeling as you are. I had similar existential thoughts on how everything is temporary and fleeting, websites and life… (please don’t judge haha, I really had these thoughts)
In a way, Lemmy is exciting and I’ve got used to it very quickly. It feels like the reddit of old and is surprisingly comfy. However, reddit was a part of some of the best years of my life and helped me become what I’m today personally and professionally. There is a wealth of information on reddit and I hope that doesn’t go away.
I will really really miss using reddit, and it will hurt in the short term, but I believe it will be a good thing eventually, especially if the Fediverse replaces it (at least to some extent). Hopefully then we can avoid this happening again and end this cycle.
I’m a bit sad (mostly for the reasons you already described), but it’s also new and exiting. Interestingly, I’m having more fun here than I’ve had on Reddit in years. Not only was it cool to set up my own instance, I also notice I’m contributing far more then I ever did on Reddit. Maybe it’s because the communities are a bit smaller, so there’s a better chance of someone actually reading your comment.
