Similar to a mulireddit where you can setup multiple communities in groups and view their posts in a single pane of glass.

For example you setup something called memes and add

1. !memes@lemmy.ml
2. !memes@infosec.pub
3. !Memes@beehaw.org
4. etc etc.

THen when you click on your multithread called memes, you can see the relevant posts from ALL the communities and instances you added to the multithread.

Second this. Especially community information. What community a post is in, a user is in, subscribe to the community etc.

Also allowing local filter on the post lists. Currently it’s subscribed or all.

They axed Pushshifts API access because the dude was unresponsive. Which is par for the course. It was down for days at a time often. At one point he mentioned you could opt out of pushift crawls, but signing up for a google survey with your username. But then never opted anyone out, so everyone got crawled.

Guy is a bit of a scumbag. Im glad his access was cut.

Agree. But I can’t find a specific inflection point. I still recall one of my first comments was some low effort smarmy joke that would engender upvotes on digg, and thus must have been good for Reddit. And the only response was something like “we don’t really do that here bud”

And they were right. The culture was much closer to say news.ycombinatir.com now, but with much more open subject matter.

I do know they changed how quickly things can be put on the front page after Boston. And then clearly there were things that were selectively placed there and suddenly certain, if not most subreddits couldn’t be on the front page. So that’s the main place I can point to that changed the type of content and culture from one of a popular vote to a more delayed and curated narrative.

I’m okay with it dying at this point.

My account is 17 years old and predates the first digg migration (before the giant digg v4). It’s been a downhill run for a while but sometime after the Boston bombing debacle it’s seemed much more aggressively moderated and curated, much less “free” and less tolerant of opinions or thoughts that fall outside of the “hive mind”.

I use it less and less anyway. I get that the API was abused to violate folks privacy wishes(ie:pushshift ) and feed larger corps coffers with ad data. And I get that a response is to ad some charge. But their general direction has seemed to be circling a toilet so to speak