14
A/S/L?
14/f/cali
Chris Hansen rubbing his hands together waiting for a reply
19/Never/Slovakia
51000/Unknowable/Bowels of the Earth
I put on my robe and wizard hat..
I agree with this statement. I was a heavy user of "Redditisfun" app for ten years. The amount of reading and learning was a lot. But ever since they killed 3rd party apps I haven't use Reddit, the original app is unbearable. And I feel like I'm getting dumber as I don't exercise that access to information enough now. I've just made a Lemmy account and trying to find my supply here, so far so good :)
I agree with your assessment of Reddit. I've been on Lemmy since the Reddit API debacle, and part of why I've stuck around is that I find that it scratches the same itch that Reddit used to. Glad to have you here.
Reddit is and has been going downhill fast. There were benefits to it being embraced by the masses but also huge downsides. The admins made decisions that negatively affected the experience of using Reddit (like refusing to let subs disable voting even when it made alot of sense) because they wanted to maximize engagement by any means necessary. But taking reddit public was the final nail in the coffin. Now they hand out temporary and permanent bans not because their rules were actually violated but to protect their stock price and corporate reputation.
I'm so old that I remember when Usenet said that eating the Americium sensor inside fire detectors could give you psychic powers. The Internet has always been a place where you need a big grain of salt for everything.
Ahh, but you knew that there was Americium inside a fire detector. Or what Americium is. Or a fire detector. Or fire.
I'm so old I remember using an ancient encyclopedia to research space for a school project, where it had illustrations about what they thought colonies on Mars would look like in 1985.
That could have been the 90's if your school was under funded.
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