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Id like to point out that none of us love Reddit. We love the users that create content, we love the content users find and share, we even love the mods that keep us protected from spam, bots and illegal content.
We don't love Reddit, Reddit just hosts the servers. Oh.. and we certainly dont love reddits UI or reddit's app-- nearly everyone detests that arm of the company.
Reddit is not Disney World, Reddit is the Florida land it's built on.
If everyone on Reddit moves to another platform, we'd still have 99.99% of what Reddit is really all about. We'd be fine, we just would go to a different URL and Reddit will be remembered like yahoo, fark and digg.
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Comment by [deleted] at 07/06/2023 at 00:58 UTC
147 upvotes, 6 direct replies
Hey I still use old.reddit.com which is UI perfection.
Comment by Swank_on_a_plank at 07/06/2023 at 02:25 UTC
14 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Reddit is not a place, it's a people?
...except RES+OldReddit is perfect.
Comment by SquirrelicideScience at 07/06/2023 at 08:39 UTC
5 upvotes, 2 direct replies
I made my account over 10 years ago so that I could join in on college football game threads when I was in high school (good lord how has it been 10 years??).
Since then, I've met people purely here as well as offline because of the various communities I gradually started engaging with. It was instrumental in helping me meet new people when I first went to college and not feeling so isolated. I remember once meeting a dude in one of my classes who was wearing a snoo shirt, so decided to go talk to him, and we helped each other in study groups. I've attempted to pay back those communities by regularly offering to tutor students that are stressed out by exams, because I remembered what that hell was like, or engaging with the various r_learnx communities or here in ELI5 to try and pay forward what little I could.
I'm not sure what will happen come July 1, but if it's going the way it looks like it will be, it will be an end of an era.
Reddit was always different enough from the other platforms because of its emphasis on discussion and community. You didn't scroll through endless "CoNtEnT", but instead you engaged with the members of the communities you cared about; you talked with real people. To strip that away to become more sanitized, corporatized, and homogenized with the worst of the Internet's laziest and greediest trends is truly a loss. For what? So that the people at the top can just pump and dump the whole thing? Truly?
When Google bought YouTube and turned it into TV-Lite, I was sad for all of the great home-made content we lost in favor people gaming the Almighty Algorithm to try to make easy money. All of the authenticity of it was stripped away. And now Reddit is going the same way.
So Reddit as we know it (or maybe entirely) goes away. What then? How is any of this sustainable? Maybe I'm becoming an old curmudgeon who hates change, but truly I don't see how the Internet can keep going like this. Once great isolated communities made way for aggregated communities. But at the heart of it was just that: communities -- people talking to each other because they had something in common that they cared about. The way the Internet has been trending since the mass adoption of smartphones, and everyone being online, just does not seem like a sustainable financial plan.
I guess none of that matters. It's just saddening.
It just sucks to see.
/rant
Comment by toblerone567 at 07/06/2023 at 03:04 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
highly agreed
Comment by Azazir at 07/06/2023 at 06:13 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Half if not more content gets reposted from other sites anyway. Reddit is just another site for people to gather and share their own or cool stuff they saw on other sites which perhaps others dont visit or know. I'm all in for protecting free API's and these actions subs are taking, also i wouldnt miss Reddit at all, we would just go to different site like you mentioned, thats it. Reddit is popular in the first place just because it stuck with others while being hands-off-ish for a long time and now they're putting their greedy goblin hands on it and look at the perception of the site and how it's going downhill for so many years.
I'm ready to switch to another app/site whoever replaces reddit.
Comment by rio_sk at 07/06/2023 at 07:37 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
If everyone on Reddit moves to another platform that platform has to pay for something they aren't paying a penny right now. Let's see what third party apps are going to do and if they have the same money that reddit is spending and giving out for free. I hope so as I hate reddit's ui.
Comment by Lutinent_Jackass at 07/06/2023 at 03:42 UTC
2 upvotes, 2 direct replies
‘None of us’
You’re wrong. I like reddit. The approach to subreddits, commenting, upvoting are all things I like
Comment by ParisHiltonIsDope at 07/06/2023 at 12:55 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
moved to another platform
Were you not around for the days of the attempted Voat migration? That was a total shit show. I can't even remember what drama inspired that moment, but there was definitely some hard anti-reddit sentiment at the time
Comment by ApostleOfGore at 07/06/2023 at 05:27 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
That won’t happen tho. There is no proper alternative, and we can never move everyone to the same platform
Comment by Opinionsadvice at 07/06/2023 at 00:28 UTC
-2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
The mods on here are a joke, it would be worth shutting down reddit completely if it meant that those weirdos lost the power they so desperately crave.
Comment by [deleted] at 07/06/2023 at 05:27 UTC
-13 upvotes, 3 direct replies
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Comment by Bebbytheboss at 08/06/2023 at 12:04 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I like the app...
Comment by Megatron_36 at 12/06/2023 at 03:52 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
What a line. Upvoted!
Comment by macks2008 at 17/06/2023 at 15:22 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
This is a key realization one has to learn when building one's social skills. You have to learn to separate the forum and community from the people&interactions you've met through it. Forums and sometimes communities might die out (Had that happen with my discord guild, though I still keep the shell of it around for sentimental reasons), but humans are getting remarkably robust against the Grim Reaper, and the memory of the interactions with humans even more so.