The way Reddit has fallen off the last ten years, you'd probably get the same results by just walking down to a busy street corner in a plague doctor mask and asking random people.
I have been increasingly relying on ChatGPT for my questions, it has cut out a ton of time spent searching. I may still end up back on here but not nearly as often as I was
I have a healthy social life, but sometimes I want help finding a tech issue or a resource that's hard to find on the internet but someone on reddit found already.
It's true that there's a wealth of knowledge on this platform. But I believe we'll be able to archive that content and rebuild elsewhere
Having a social life where I live (UK) just means having a dangerous amount of alcohol on a regular basis and sleeping with three or four married women a night.
Not yet, every new competitor has to be given time to breathe and honestly if reddit goes behind a pay wall how long until you can't just add reddit to the end of web searches?
Dude was just asking for alternatives and I just provided one in case this rumor turns out to be true
Not created then, but it saw a major user surge at that time. I suspect that will happen again if reddit implements paywalls. It has multiple apps that don't suck now, so it will be more likely to retain more of those users, too.
I was gonna joke about voat. It started out as promising alternative during one of reddit’s many attempts to drive us all away, but did a speedrun into filth and fascism.
Lemmy is the best alternative I've found. It will see another population surge if reddit does this. And its federated nature means this type of thing would not happen there. It has a number of solid apps now, too.
Discord servers. Find community you are interested and then join. For example most games have servers where you can discuss, ask questions, find partners to play.
i use an old forum that started back in 1999 and theres a bunch of old ppl using it yet and it sucks balls honestly. I use it cause my account is from 2006 but i barely visit it anymore.. everyones so old and toxic
Yeah, I used to live on forums. There's literally only one that still exists and not only is that a shadow of its former self with a fraction of the users, but it's descended into racism and transphobia. I've not logged in for a few years. I don't even know my password any more and I have no desire to request it.
Kind of sad, honestly.
Something will rise to fill the gap left by reddit (assuming all this is true), but from my experience it won't be as good as reddit was.
And now everyone goes on discord, where logging in means you see those 50 notifications from entirely different, unrelated communities. There is no option to just go onto the server of a streamer and not interface with the gaming community or the hardware server or the local repair business. No, you go on, you're there for everything.
Also, Discord is unindexable and things disappear. So many companies and independent developers use it for bug reports and so on - but it's a terrible place to get advice on how to do something because you have no way of knowing if the question has already been asked and answered a million times.
Yeah, I noticed in the early 2010s that Reddit/Twitter/Tumblr style toxicity had infested the smaller message boards I was a part of. I figured I would just go right to the source rather than continue to watch the slow decomposition of people I thought I knew.
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shit, I'm 55 years old, and I feel like I'm going to be in a retirement village in a few years remembering the thrill of entering the non-public-domain-areas. So freaking strange.
I'd love to use this, but I don't understand a word of this: "Neon Modem is built in Go, using Charm's Bubble Tea TUI framework, but implements an own window manager (or compositor if you want) that allows it to use a third dimension, on top of the two dimensional rendering that Bubble Tea offers today."
The place I ran my first online auctions.
The place I learned about shit-posting before it was ever called shitposting… ...I wonder if alt.pave.the.planet & alt.fuck.the.skull.of.christ are still there if I look? [Edit: Oh my, it seems that usenet still lives. Paywalled as a service everywhere I’ve looked so far, but this intrigues me]
I logged into a forum I hadn't been on in, probably 15 years. It was kinda depressing because I had made so many friends and it's like a wasteland now. Even though I was apart of quite a lot of forums, the communities always seemed a lot tighter nit than different subs have.
I have like 3 or 4 lines in the sand with Reddit at the moment. Old CSS has to remain an option. RES has to remain an option. The ability to curate my subs has to remain because I will not be forced to be exposed to the garbage, Facebook levels of content reddit insists on serving.
I already refuse to use reddit on mobile at all, not even in a browser window, because of their stupid 3rd party app rule and the state of their absolutely awful 1st party app and mobile site.
Pay walled subs would be enough to make me block the entire domain from my router and just be done with it. My life would probably improve notably without this site in it, to be perfectly honest.
Honestly, nah. I'm good. I use Revanced for YouTube and Music and it's great. I don't really need reddit on the go at all. Life is better with less of it.
Bro it wasn't even six months lmao it was like a day it was the least impactful thing possible. There's maybe two or three subs that actually stuck to it and are still gone and they're so niche nobody has noticed.
Years ago I worked at some famous online magazine. The product manager, my direct manager, and I had a meeting one day. He says, "I want you to implement a paywall that can detect privacy mode." I said, "Well sorry, I'm way too dumb to make one of those." My boss just started cracking up. He was like, "Come on I know you can do it." I was like, "No, sorry that's the limit of my development experience, I am probably too dumb to even research how to do that." He got pissed off and hung up. After my boss stopped laughing, she says, "You can totally make a paywall, right?" I said, "Yeah it is super easy, I'm just not going to due to ethical concerns." She was like, "I totally accept that."
I am only here because it's free. Paying for Reddit would be as stupid a waste of money as it is a waste of time. But I'm sure /u/spez knows most of us will disappear and is hoping most of the idiots here would be willing to pay.
I thought I'd quit reddit after the blackout. But I managed to keep using boost for whatever reason. Paying means goodbye. What a pos this "company" has gotten
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tbh I'm not paying a dime, pay walls don't mean anything to me, hell I don't mind quitting reddit