Mr. Huffman and Alexis Ohanian founded Reddit in 2005 as a site with a countercultural attitude toward the internet and its advertising-based economy. Reddit espoused free speech at any cost, zero ads and an insular culture that laid a foundation for Web 2.0’s meme culture.

Well how things have changed.

I also will never install the official reddit app. I'm trying to move away from reddit altogether for various reasons.

I created this account this morning and am writing this message on Jerboa (got it off fdroid). So far so good!

Anybody else remember the $2000 gold plated hdmi cable on amazon? The reviews were wild lol.

This is least painful/scary way for them to die. It'd be an instantaneous death.

High pressure under water does weird things

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=kWVvI4Aw-kc

Eehh fuck the conseritives on the supreme court.

Confirmed Slide no longer works either and unistalled it from my phone. So long reddit, it was fun (but utimately misguided of me to invest time/attention towards it).

Hello Lemmy, you hot new thing!

If you can donate some money to the lemmy developers and your instance.

Upvote/downvote posts

Consider becoming a moderator (if you have time)

Fuckin' A!

Yep it turns people into rage-aholics.

I'm sure the advertisers are going to love that.

Well they don't call it a swordfish for nuthin'!

Anyway that stuff doesn’t matter. What matters is it was pretty clear and mostly agreed that the internet works best when we use open protocols and not hide community generated content behind login screens and apps. We agreed to continue to participate in adding to the global knowledge as long as everyone played nice and allowed the content we put in for free, can be indexed, RSS’d, shared and scraped. This way anyone can find it and benefit from it.

This to me is the worst part of the enshittification of reddit. All that human interaction and knowledge base is "owned" and controlled by a profit driven entity. Reddit hasn't done it yet, but I think the time is approaching when they gatekeep all that data behind a login, which will prevent it from showing up in google searches.

Bringing this full circle. Federated apps feel like the logical next steps. I think this path is the correct one.

Lemmy is only four years oldand will continue to get better. There will be other projects (kbin, plebbit to name a few) trying to accomplish the same thing as lemmy, exploration is good. It's an exciting time for social media.

Ratfuckery of the highest order.

Yeah does it seems like decentralized (federated or otherwise) systems will be the future of social media. There's lemmy (only four years old, the most popular I'd say), bluesky (another federated system), and plebbit (peer to peer, uses ipfs) to highlight a few. So there seemsto be a lot of exploration in this space.

I think reddit will be around for quite some time, but it'll never be the same, and die a slow death.

I'd like to see some sort of export/import functionality as well. Instances will come and go, and it would suck for people on those to just lose their stuff with out having a way to back up/restore it.

Though I think a lot of them are just trying to find reasons to complain about Lemmy because they are addicted to reddit, don't want to make the switch and they know that if people start leaving Reddit they're going to have to switch to something else and that scares the shit out of them.

It sometimes amazes me how opposed to change people can sometimes be. Yeah sure Lemmy is different, but not radically so.

Good, let it burn.

I thought it was cool that there was a recursive element to the simulated realities.

Episode was a surveillance capitalism nightmare.

Eggs.

Fantastic!