Enshitification of places where people used to hang out means people will just simply move to better places to chill and hang out.
I know that "the grass is greener on the other side of the hill" is a cliche trope but sometimes it's true.
I'm not surprised that corpos still don't understand this after what happened to most /if not all malls that toxified themselves to irrelevancy and death.
What is meant by 'potential drop of old.reddit'?
It’s going to be sad in that we will no longer be able to see how large r/linux has become.
One of the fastest ways to get your account banned on Reddit is to mention the competition.
That is a good thing.
If they drop old.reddit.com and kill my RSS subscriptions then they'll have single-handedly eliminated the last acceptable way to read reddit.
Ah well, it was fun while it lasted.
This could make it easier to delete dead accounts.
In the future they can always block or shadow-ban such conversations with keyword-search and AI.
What I find funny is all those people complaining about ai posts and looking for somewhere to escape it. Yet people here use ai bots to mirror the reddit bot posts to lemmy. Those ai snatchers are not doing lemmy any good imo.
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