GeekyNerdyNerd

joined 1 year ago
[–] GeekyNerdyNerd@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There is something ironic about a bunch of authoritarian nutjobs making an free and open source decentralized platform.

[–] GeekyNerdyNerd@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm in a few different subs on Reddit, but the ones id love to see the most here would probably be:

r/stellaris r/crusaderkings r/kotor r/fireemblem and r/talesfromtechsupport

[–] GeekyNerdyNerd@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Yup. After reading about Apollo going the way of the dino I took a quick glance over the Boost for Reddit subreddit, and while it doesn't look like they've announced their shutdown it's realistically gonna happen unless Reddit backs out last second.

I saw a thread there where someone recommended Lemmy so here I am. Gotta say so far it feels just like Reddit did, in a good way.

The thing about social media sites is that they never truly and permanently die, they just slowly languish into irrelevance.

MySpace still exists for example, as does AOL, Tumblr, and yes, DIGG.. However to say they are shells of their former selves would be an understatement.

It took 5 years after Facebook opened up to the general punic for MySpace to fall to the point of having to sell out to another company. We are still in the early days when it comes to seeing if Musk will effectively kill Twitter.

If reddit starts to die we won't notice for quite some time. We will at most see waves of people leaving months or years apart and then one day reddit will just find itself basically forgotten about.