Seeing how the vast majority of people stayed and are gladly participating in reddits PR event, I think it's fair to say that messing with reddit can be fine.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (6 children)

The strange thing about reddit refugees on Lemmy is that they have this weird sense that the platform they left actually died when they did so. The trith is that the vast majority did not migrate and are happily eating their spoonfed shit.

When we say it's dead, we mean what is used to be is dead. But let's not pretend the site actually died or is no longer working. We can all (justifiably) think it's a shit filled shell of it's former self without being in denial.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

I'm a refugee, but I have no illusion about my value to Reddit (or how much my absence will be noticed - barely at all if at all)

I think, for some of us, it's not like "the platform will die"; it's "I left the circus. No longer my deal". Thrive, falter .. it's no longer our business; and that's freeing.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A quick reminder to everyone that MySpace still exists.

Just because the link doesn't 404 doesn't mean that something ain't dying or dead.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

They've been propping up Myspace's corpse like Weekend at Bernie's since 2008. I feel like they're trying to do the same thing now with the new version WinAmp. They're dead to me.

[–] Cabrio 18 points 1 year ago

Just like digg is still "working", dying takes time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's absolutely wild. I saw this meme the other day: https://jlai.lu/post/86996

Some people have lost all grip on reality.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

But Facebook and Twitter still exist