[HN Gopher] r/ProgrammerHumor will be shutting down to protest R...
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       r/ProgrammerHumor will be shutting down to protest Reddit's API
       changes
        
       Author : owenpalmer
       Score  : 39 points
       Date   : 2023-06-08 22:14 UTC (46 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (old.reddit.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (old.reddit.com)
        
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       | icameron wrote:
       | I decided to use this as a good excuse to delete Reddit. I find
       | myself going to it too often, and scrolling for too long, and
       | afterwards I feel worse about the direction of humanity and down
       | about the world. I'm not getting anything positive from it so for
       | my own mental heath I'm deleting the app.
        
       | yakshaving_jgt wrote:
       | It'd be nice if the Haskell subreddit found a new home. I don't
       | know why Reddit is so generally toxic, but it is.
        
         | nerdchum wrote:
         | It's because like four moderators control like most of the main
         | subreddits.
        
         | hifromLA wrote:
         | You'd be hard pressed to find social media that doesn't trend
         | towards toxicity, but Reddit in particular seems to have a
         | culture of users that want to feel superior at any cost.
         | They're always looking to put down others and they're often
         | rewarded for doing so.
        
         | mhitza wrote:
         | https://discourse.haskell.org could be that new home. However
         | most new users would expect a programming subreddit language to
         | exist.
        
       | diego_moita wrote:
       | I wish I had a lobste.rs membership now.
        
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