Well, I’m here, aren’t I?

I mourn what it was, yes.

There was a recent comment I read about how it’s become this incredible resource for the most obscure tech and they were reluctant to delete their posts and accounts because they’d receive random messages of thanks years after the post was made.

And it’s true. Reddit has become an invaluable resource for these kinds of things. It was always the community and discussion that made reddit great and they want to turn it into yet another swipebait infested serotonin sponge.

It almost makes me think that when something becomes such an enormous and invaluable public resource, there should be a legal compulsion to archive it before doing anything that will compromise its accessibility.

Particularly in the way that lemmy isn’t finance bro bullshit

You can sub and comment on other instances without registering on each one. However, there is a bit of a fragmented experience when viewing context from your inbox.

Except more and more companies are hopping on this gravy train because they can get away with it. At some point (and that point may be now already, depending on the sector), it’s going to be difficult-to-impossible to buy anything without this subscription bullshit.

Anything that doesn’t incur an ongoing cost to provide should be legally prohibited from being sold as a “subscription.”

Heart attack from yelling at my computer screen, I guess