If you weren't a redditor, or weren't an active one, I can see not understanding the public grief over reddit.
I was a reddit mod. I attended and ran dozens of reddit meetups. I made numerous friends from reddit. I had 2 relationships because of reddit. I watched 2 couples get married because of reddit, and because I introduced my reddit friends to my larp friends, I caused 2 more.
I have an "Open Sourceror" badge on my reddit profile, because 13 years ago I made a patch for reddit so that /r/friends/comments would show comments, including in an RSS feed, so reddit could be used with Gwibber on Ubuntu. Later they killed the RSS feed access if you weren't logged in, but you could still use it through the API. Now they've killed the API too.
reddit wasn't just a link aggregator site. In lots of places it was a source of community, and a source of advice on niche topics. I dropped my reddit scrolling to near zilch, but I still pop in to give advice for those groups, because they're not going to get it elsewhere right now.
So for some, it was just a place for memes, and they can find them elsewhere. For others, it was 14 years of community. It's only been a month. Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me.
I was much younger then, up for hanging out with redditors in bars in philly once or more a week. Maybe someday we'll have a kbin/lemmy meetup, but I have yet to run a Hacker News meetup, so Outlook Not So Good.
It’s crazy to think it’s been that long. I thought it’d be harder to fully switch from Reddit to here but I’m finding that I’m enjoying my time here WAY more then the 8 years I was on Reddit. I tried scrolling through Reddit a few days ago and it just didn’t feel the same as usual so I went ahead and fully removed the app. I’m happy to be here ☺️
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