I appreciated reddit very very narrowly, and entirely because every time I had a problem, the internet search result for said problem would be a reddit post with the solution. . Which isnt even true anymore, between people having scrambled posts before deleting accounts, and just the passage of time, and due to the friendly, helpful people disappearing.
beyond that interaction with reddit, it was a festering shitpile of hatred, bigotry, and pedophilia, and it continues to amaze me how it maintained such a popular position.
I miss having a place with niche communities that were active due to the sheer size of reddit. It’s very hard to get one going here - especially with the fragmentation of instances. Want to talk scuba diving? Do you go to the scuba community on .world or on .ml or what?
The community with the most posts last had a post 11 months ago. The one with the most users hasn’t had one in a year.
Being Lemmy, that post wasn’t really even about diving, but was about about Linus Torvalds making a FOSS dive logging app, because of course it fucking was.
now the place to get questions answered is discord.
Where the answers are now locked away, never to be found, archived, or otherwise made wildly available unless you specifically find that specific discord that contains it by pure happenstance and luck,… and for it all to disappear when the discord shuts down, Or someone just decides to delete their post, lost forever, never to be seen again.
I appreciated reddit very very narrowly, and entirely because every time I had a problem, the internet search result for said problem would be a reddit post with the solution. . Which isnt even true anymore, between people having scrambled posts before deleting accounts, and just the passage of time, and due to the friendly, helpful people disappearing.
beyond that interaction with reddit, it was a festering shitpile of hatred, bigotry, and pedophilia, and it continues to amaze me how it maintained such a popular position.
I miss having a place with niche communities that were active due to the sheer size of reddit. It’s very hard to get one going here - especially with the fragmentation of instances. Want to talk scuba diving? Do you go to the scuba community on .world or on .ml or what?
The community with the most posts last had a post 11 months ago. The one with the most users hasn’t had one in a year.
Being Lemmy, that post wasn’t really even about diving, but was about about Linus Torvalds making a FOSS dive logging app, because of course it fucking was.
Yeah I agree with all of that. Used to be that Reddit was the place to go to get questions answered… That time is long gone now.
now the place to get questions answered is discord.
Where the answers are now locked away, never to be found, archived, or otherwise made wildly available unless you specifically find that specific discord that contains it by pure happenstance and luck,… and for it all to disappear when the discord shuts down, Or someone just decides to delete their post, lost forever, never to be seen again.
God I miss web forums.