I think it hasn’t ‘happened’ or ‘not happened’, I think it began losing its way and losing its identity years ago, but I think what we have seen recently is a big acceleration of that process, and for many the straw that broke the camels back was the recent changes and toxic behavior of the ceo and pr team

I agree that saying ‘risks losing its identity’ makes it sound like it is hypothetical and in the future which is not accurate.

Reddit has changed more than once. But this is very different. Your comment struck me as cynically dishonest. Almost dismissive of what has brought me and many people to even hear about lemmy let alone discover it even exists.

Nothing like this has ever happened to reddit before. Full stop. To act otherwise shows both ignorance and also insensitivity to the millions of people who feel like they just got evicted from their portal to the rest of whats happening in the world.

Because i can still use reddit if i use it differently, that barrier of usability shows what a vast number of people who use reddit want. Perhaps it also shows how invasive our digital habits have skewed or affected our physical world behaviours.

And perhaps my bias is showing, i have been on reddit for longer than some, if not many, reddit users have been alive.

It was a place i learned a lot about the world around me and now have to try to figure out how to live without it. And im old now. To quote the simpsons "I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you!

I think unfamiliar and confusing is more accuarate than weird and scary but it seems a strangely prohetic quote.

Fun fact. I can remember watching the simpsons on a black and white 12" CRT TV (KVOS TV 12)

Im 42

In summary this did NOT happen years ago your truth does not match my reality