Post AWUh5rWtuKpSb0Pcx6 by thees@emacs.ch
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(DIR) Post #AWUh5rWtuKpSb0Pcx6 by thees@emacs.ch
2023-06-08T20:48:13Z
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I’ve been using #reddit (for many years as my only social media before mastodon came along) for 11 years & I’ll stop doing so after the 30th of June when Apollo gets shut down. Generally I won’t want to use any big centralized platform for social communication and discussion as I’d very much prefer decentralized services not owned by for-profit companies.
(DIR) Post #AWUpXM2JOMk4f8izw0 by louis@emacs.ch
2023-06-08T23:08:41Z
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@thees Too bad Reddit decided to go full Twitter. But future shareholders must be pleased & all their new offices around the world cost a lot of money. Time to delete your content on Reddit before it is too late (there are comments predicting Reddit will soon make deleting content impossible).
(DIR) Post #AWUqDOiboH118yYZfM by thees@emacs.ch
2023-06-08T23:16:22Z
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@louis Especially given that reddit once was a commonlisp project (see http://web.archive.org/web/20210307085921/https://redditblog.com/2005/12/05/on-lisp/ for this, the original sourcecode being available at https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit1.0) and historically being linked to Aaron Swartz who co-authored RSS 1.0, it's sad to see what the platform has become in 2023. I definitely will delete my accounts and stop using it; as it's even more of a walled garden now then it was before.