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Comment by hughesjj | Hacker News Reader

its the death of reddit, just like digg before it. And google circles or whatever it was called its been so long. and myspace and friendster and orkut and aol and msn and Usenet and Dubsmash and vine and literally more sites than Wikipedia fits on one page

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I was thinking about the connection between the death of digg and now the death of reddit. It's similar that they destroyed engagement by not responding to feedback. Social communities can be forgiving for missteps with acknowledgement and accountability, but Reddit seems to have just shifted its focus from being a community space into a data product.

Had an account for 14 years that I plan on 'deleting', whatever that means with the fast and loose intentions around customer data that reddit seems to have now.

This is more like the death of Twitter - highly exaggerated and no alternatives. Nothing changes.

Lemmy is relatively thriving. I doubt this will be the "Great migration", but if Lemmy was able to hold enough users, the next time Reddit makes a big mistake, Lemmy will be a viable alternative by then.

Just tried Lemmy.. are you serious?

Funny i was part of not one of these. B/c every one of these were full of social media zombie sheeple along with gamers, dorks, geeks and techies. Decent, fun people you find IRL. Not arguing / chatting online.

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