In the last 3 days I’ve been paying attention to r/all, expecting several posts about it and…

Yeah

Wasn’t expecting the website to literally shut down nor to monopolize r/all, because 3rd party users are the minority, but I hoped for more than whatever this was.

At least there’s a silver lining, I discovered new alternatives that have healthier communities

  • CorrodedCranium@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    Have you ever added the word Reddit to a web search so you could find an answer online without a lot of digging?

    Stuff like that I imagine got hit hard. There will always be core communities that either stay up or are easy replicate but I imagine they’ll be losing a lot of smaller communities.

    • colin@lemmy.uninsane.orgEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      yes! i landed on reddit twice during the last couple days that way.

      • the NixOS sub wasn’t dark, but users were asking about that and some were dropping the lemmy link.
      • the selfhosted sub (or one adjacent to it, don’t remember) was dark, and for this query i actually could not find the info i needed written anywhere else. that was a wakeup call.
    • Espi@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      This is why subreddits shouldn’t close permanently. I wonder if its possible to leave subreddits in read-only mode? to allow anyone to find all the incredibly valuable information.

      • spaduf@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        More importantly this is why we never should have allowed private companies to monopolize our access to our own freely shared information.