I know will not be seen by many, but if someone wonders why my profile is dead, they know why. Link sends to join-lemmy.org, if I get banned, oh well…
You guys are way too attached to Reddit.
if the topic is contained, it is easy for you to ban so your eyes don’t burn
Bro they are fake points, you’ll survive
You guys are strange, who feels the need to write a going away letter on a reddit account? I doubt any of you had some sort of following on there. Redditors are a truly strange breed.
I was on Reddit for 17 years. It was my home on the Internet. I used to go to Reddit meetup days and hang out with other Reddit nerds. It’s natural for people to have sentimental feelings about something that’s been such a big part of so many of our lives.
I haven’t been back since the Lemmy exodus, except by accident a few times. But I miss what it was.
There’s one obscure sub I was active on that I still feel bad not reading, as I was a fairly experienced in the topic contributor. There are most likely a few folks on there noticing my absence including the mods. I just haven’t been back once since June. I knew feel like maybe I should have said something.
There’s no harm in leaving a forwarding address when you leave a place.
Additionally, it’s a common practice for some users of reddit and things like it to click over to the profile of someone who posted something you find interesting; why not check out what else they post or are into? Now whenever someone clicks OP’s profile the first thing they’ll see is this, and that’s potentially of value to someone over there who hasn’t yet checked things out over here. Old reddit posts and commments still get new engagement coming in all the time even years after the fact, so something like this can actually reach folks.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=ZaYc41Ql2Lk
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
I did the same–with links to Reddit alternatives–back in early July when it became clear Reddit admin was going full autocratic on the situation. I didn’t delete my content and I still don’t plan to, as the discussions (and especially the Q&A) on Reddit are a public good that is a net positive for the Internet, and even the ugly acts of site leadership don’t change that. I encourage anyone that still has a Reddit account to pin a similar message.
This post also reminded me that I’d recommended Squabbles when I first made the post, so I had to run over there and edit that out. Oof. 😬
