Me too. I connect a lot of memories with reddit. I found out about so many things, found such cool communities and learned a lot. And it was entertaining too, all the time. But it's time to move on and make these same experiences on a new platform, owned by the people. I'm kinda sad, but also excited for it.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Second panel could also be "Was I a link aggregator?" Because it's hardly that anymore.

[–] Zak@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It hasn't been that since it got self-posts and comments in 2006; it's a forum.

Lemmy and kbin are also forum software and should embrace being good at that.

[–] argv_minus_one 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's specifically a forum with branching threads, popularity scoring, and topic-oriented communities that ordinary users can create and moderate. That's the successful formula.

Lemmy is missing that last feature. I hope that's merely because it's not implemented yet and not the result of an intentional design decision.

[–] HenryWong327@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You can create communities on instances other than Beehaw. Beehaw has some restrictions which include not being able to downvote and not being able to make new communities, so yeah it's an intentional decision on their part.

[–] argv_minus_one 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

~~Any idea why Beehaw doesn't allow people to make new communities?~~

Edit: Never mind, it says right here.

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

This might count as embracing ... an official alternative old-school forum front-end to lemmy (running on a separate instance): https://fedibb.ml/

[–] SunshineCat@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Ggwp go next

[–] bdonvr@lemmy.rogers-net.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It was good at the very start, but not much longer after that.

[–] elouboub@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

The facebook exodus was reddit's Eternal September

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