I’ve never been sentimental about a social media site but it’s sad for me to see reddit so clearly killing itself. Pushshift is already banned and Apollo is soon to follow. Reddit will either pivot fully to a mainstream audience or die out. It’s just sad for me to see it doing it to itself.
Maybe not mourn but I did have an “oh shit” moment today over a couple smaller communities where I don’t know where people might scatter to. It finally sank in.
Yeah, it’s the little niche communities that I’m sad about:
An arborist spent 4 years helping me take care of an elm tree. They’d PM me every May to ask how it was doing, and I’d start another thread and send them pictures so they could tell me how to fix the roots or change the guy wires or prune the branches. When it got complicated, another arborist popped out of the woodwork to offer a second opinion and more advice.
I helped a person on oscilloscopemusic breadboard a little 2 channel opamp buffer/amp so they could use a CRT to make shapes from music instead of needing to buy a scope.
I won’t miss reddit, but I will miss interactions like that.