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The Reddit blackout was pretty underwhelming (beehaw.org)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/chat@beehaw.org
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In the last 3 days I've been paying attention to r/all, expecting several posts about it and...

Yeah

Wasn't expecting the website to literally shut down nor to monopolize r/all, because 3rd party users are the minority, but I hoped for more than whatever this was.

At least there's a silver lining, I discovered new alternatives that have healthier communities

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[–] 28 points 3 years ago (3 children)

For me it's been pretty great. Lemmy and the fediverse kinda remind me of reddit circa 2007 or 2008 before the eternal September. I'm going to enjoy this for as long as it lasts.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I'm definitely happy the blackout encouraged me to move to the fediverse.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    Same, I could never really get into mastodon as I never liked Twitter much, so I'm pretty happy I found out about Lemmy. I know everyone on this site has been saying this, but it feels fresh, and the fact that it's all open source and community owned is great.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    the eternal september?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Its a reference to Usenet back in 1993, its essentially when an online community has to deal with a never ending influx of new users. So think of this as Reddit before it got big/mainstream.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I was using usenet a bit back then. I actually found myself debating stuff on usenet by going to Google groups and searching for my name. Have to say, I was expecting to be embarrassed to read it all again, but it wasn't too bad. What I wrote still makes sense to me now 30 years later. I didn't expect that.

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