The strange thing about reddit refugees on Lemmy is that they have this weird sense that the platform they left actually died when they did so. The trith is that the vast majority did not migrate and are happily eating their spoonfed shit.
When we say it’s dead, we mean what is used to be is dead. But let’s not pretend the site actually died or is no longer working. We can all (justifiably) think it’s a shit filled shell of it’s former self without being in denial.
It’s absolutely wild. I saw this meme the other day: https://jlai.lu/post/86996
Some people have lost all grip on reality.
A quick reminder to everyone that MySpace still exists.
Just because the link doesn’t 404 doesn’t mean that something ain’t dying or dead.
I’m a refugee, but I have no illusion about my value to Reddit (or how much my absence will be noticed - barely at all if at all)
I think, for some of us, it’s not like “the platform will die”; it’s “I left the circus. No longer my deal”. Thrive, falter … it’s no longer our business; and that’s freeing.
Yeah I left Reddit not because it was dying but because it started to change into something that wasn’t for me. It has always changed, but the third party app thing made me realize it was time to move on.
I don’t care what reddits owners do with the platform, I’m just glad to be here now.
