• NerfHerder
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    10 months ago

    That site died with Aaron Swartz. What remains is a sad, disheveled, dead husk of what was.

    • @Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1310 months ago

      Tbh it could have “died” if Aaron Schwartz was still around. Wasnt he a “free speach absolutist”? So the site could swarm even more with fascists if he was still here.

  • fmstratA
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    1310 months ago

    Reddit now blocks VPN connections unless signed in.

    Now my brain hurts less. Annnnd oh well, on with my day.

  • Hellfire103
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    1010 months ago

    Kddit and Eddrit still work, though I don’t want too many people to know about them, or else Reddit would probably block them.

    There’s also Remini, over in Geminispace.

  • don
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    910 months ago

    There’s a cesspit I don’t miss in the slightest.

    • @HolyDiver@aussie.zone
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      710 months ago

      i miss the content on there, and decades worth of answered questions, as well as how polished it was compared to lemmy

      but I don’t see myself going back there either

      • don
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        910 months ago

        I can understand your viewpoint, I did have 12 years there.

        I remember very well when Pao was CEO, and the bigass infographic of the exodus from Digg. The fall of FPH and jailbait. Unidan. I even created a Voat account, and promptly regretted it.

        I’m sometimes shocked by how immediately and thoroughly I turned my back on the history of Reddit, but I’m as temporarily at home in lemmy as I was in Reddit.

        Lemmy, as all things, will fall. Entropy always wins.

        • @HolyDiver@aussie.zone
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          610 months ago

          i was only there for around 5 years but I was overall quite happy with the community there (granted I spent my time in small hobbyists subreddits), and Lemmy seems to be quite a good community too but a lot smaller and so there’s less information to be shared

  • @Potatofish@lemmy.world
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    28 months ago

    Despite what the Lemmy zealots say, it’s not a shit site. It’s a site run by shit people who want to monetize you as much as possible with tracking data. Other than that, the content on Reddit is far superior to Lemmy.

  • Leah96xxx (she/they)
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    210 months ago

    I had this yesterday while connected to AdGuard’s London server, but somehow it worked fine on their Manchester server.