An era of the internet is ending, and we’re watching it happen practically in real time. Twitter has been on a steep and seemingly inexorable decline for, well, years, but especially since Elon Musk bought the company last fall and made a mess of the place. Reddit has spent the last couple of months self-immolating in similar ways, alienating its developers and users and hoping it can survive by sticking its head in the sand until the battle’s over. (I thought for a while that Reddit would eventually be the last good place left, but… nope.) TikTok remains ascendent — and looks ever more likely to be banned in some meaningful way. Instagram has turned into an entertainment platform; nobody’s on Facebook anymore…

  • craberium@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Same. Only thing I’m missing so far is some of my favorite communities like r/onepunchman

    I used to rely on it for notification of English translations of new chapters

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      1 year ago

      Same, as well as several other anime communities. There is a OPM community here but so far it’s just a bot reposting Reddit posts with no other engagement.

      More people need to bring up migrating to lemmy on those subreddits.

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        1 year ago

        A lot of people here deleted their Reddit accounts when they left.