I’m going to miss AITA. Even if someone makes it a community, it will take a long time to populate.
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Honestly, I think the more reliable curated information will be what I miss the most. I almost always append a Google search with “Reddit” - because the information and format are so much more reliable than the bot populated garbage sites.
Also, niche porn subs. 🫡
I literally add “reddit” to the end of a search all the time…thought I was the only one
I think we all learned to do that eventually. It’s like losing an encyclopedia
Already today I’ve made probably 15 Google searches with the “reddit” suffix only to be met with privated subreddits. It’s a grim feeling, considering my undying support for sticking it to Reddit rn. It kind of feels like passing by the place old restaurant that was always nasty and unhygenic yet had delicious nostalgic food, and remembering that the place eventually closed down and you won’t get that experience anymore.
I think even people who weren’t on reddit knew that that was a useful trick.
I think ChatGPT is going to mean Reddit and similar sites will also become bot populated garbage. There was just now a major problem with this in /r/programming.
It’s likely to happen here too, no?
RE niche porn subs, same here brother 🙌 Seems pretty slim atm on Lemmy but I am sure it will grow. Have seen a couple. Trying to do my part as well and manage one if you are interested in ‘the posterior’:
NSFW in spoiler:
This is me exactly :/
/r/AskHistorians - ruthlessly and efficiently moderated, but every single post a fascinating read. I should msg Zukhov to see if he wants to move ship to /c/AskHistorians.
That would be amazing if the current AskHistorians team moved here. It’s legitimately one of the best run subs.
Effectively migrating entire subs is an excellent strategy
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Are they even joining the protest? They weren’t private when I was checking a protest tracking site this morning.
Cmon lemmy, tell us you have a PR team that is actively seeking out the good mods over there
Really going to miss my local subreddit.
We had a weekly rant thread and it was funny just seeing neighbors talk smack or bitch about silly little things.
For sure. My small city sub was hilarious. Always people asking “anyone know why there’s a helicopter flying over our city?!”
Ours was “Did you hear that noise??”
Every time it rained: “We need the moisture”
Denver?
Between that and “OMG is that gunfire?!” when it’s OBVIOUSLY a firework. What with the bright explosion and the fact that people don’t usually skip handgun firing and jump straight to grenade launching mortars.
Ours was “Did you hear that noise??”
That sounds just like r/SaltLakeCity
“Anyone else see those lights in the sky?”
“Visiting soon! Any recommendations?”
“Is [broad area] safe?”
Brisbane??
Why not just start it here in Lemmy? I did for my City and a few people have already started to trickle in without any sort of advertising. The memes have already started to flow!
I was just trying to think of what I’d miss the most when I saw this. Yep, hands down it’ll be my local sub. We’re one of the smaller cities in my country which meant the sub reflected the quirks and experience of day to day life quite accurately.
Sounds like a good thing to make on this side
I’m really worried for those who use third party apps and depend on r/stopdrinking. That community single-handedly helped me get sober.
I fear that someone who is on the brink of breaking sobriety and wants to reach out on r/stopdrinking, not being able to access it from the app they normally use would be just enough of a hurdle for them to give in and start drinking again.
Makes me really sad to think about since it can be a dark place and the people there are so genuinely caring.
I mostly will miss being able to google something and adding “reddit” to my search to search for public opinion on day to day issues and problems.
This is probably one of the biggest losses. Reddit was my go-to for finding actual answers to questions I had. Without it, you end up with nothing but sponsored articles that don’t really answer the question.
That’s an easy problem to solve. When I was 10 and went on a family holiday trip to Advertisistan, I first came into contact with the awesome concept that is Buythiscrap. It is a very sophisticated process, but my parents, who were born in a time where lead was still a perfectly fine additive to gasoline, taught me well during the stay.
Before I remembered the the concept of Buythiscrap, I had the same problems as you, but when looking through the holiday pictures from Scammyphotobooks, which has a really amazing software to work with, the concept came back to me.
There are 3 different solutions to solve your problem, but each of them is easy to shop and has its own shipping costs.
1st solution: Use the first add on Google
If you apply Buythiscrap correctly, you should reward the company that paid Google the most to be on top of the search. Better yet, buy some products you don’t even need with the low quality garbage they want to sell you.
2nd solution: Use the second add on Google As an alternative, you can also click on sponsored content nr. 2, as they also paid a great deal to be up there. And we from Buythiscrap really appreciate when companies pay for their products to be shoved down your throat.
3rd solution Scroll down to the Garbagefilledwithpops blog post, where for every three lines, there is an auto play video of unrelated topics and product, and every half a page of scrolling, you are presented with a aesthetically pleasing pop up add that includes a riddle to close it. Remember to sign up for their newsletter, as they will kindly distribute your personal information to companies that take good care of your data and send you relevant product offers.
If you are not convinced of Buythiscrap by now, try to check out these amazing alternatives:
- Moneyforbillionaires
- Yourdataisfreeforall
- Organfarm
- Prince Bank of Nigeria
Jesus, lol, have my upvote.
*ad is short for advertisement
add = +
ADD isn’t a thing anymore, it’s all ADHD now.
😉
This is the content I came for. Thank you! :D
Before this entire fiasco, I didn’t even realise googling “____ Reddit” was such a global phenomenon. But I also didn’t realise just how much I relied on these surprisingly specific answers to just about everything until now that it’s gone. Damn… I’ll miss it.
I’m with you. It’s going to suck losing out on so much random information. Reddit was my go to for those obscure questions I had but we survived before Reddit and will find a way to survive without it.
all of the weird, super-specific cute pages. illegallysmolcats, illegallysmoldogs, airplaneears, attackeyes, puppybellies, oneorangebraincell, stealthbombers, scrunge, peanutwhiskers, toebeans, whatswrongwithyourcat, crabcats, huskytantrums.
I… may have an addiction.
r/cancer It was a nice space to find support of other people going through what I’m going through.
/r/history heavily moderated and has actual historical experts answering questions and has a big library of already answered questions.
r/AskHistorians. I don’t think a sub like that can just be remade out of nowhere
I’ll miss clicking Top of All Time in all subreddits. In here I have to wait YEARS before I can find the Top of All Time content.
Not a subreddit, exactly, but I’m going to miss /u/poem_for_your_sprog and /u/Schnoodle_Doodle_Do. They made browsing so much better - I loved unexpectedly coming across one of their poems.
Subs that I used (and will miss) (Also no NSFW subs here)
AbandonedPorn ABoringDystopia AbruptChaos AbruptComposure AbsoluteUnits AccidentalWesAnderson ActLikeYouBelong ActualPublicFreakouts AdmiralCloudberg AdorablePorn AdviceAnimals AfterVanced AirSwimming AnimalsMadeMeSmile AntiConsumption AskDocs AskHistorians AskLemmy AskScience AssholeDesign Atheism AwfulEverything Aww AwwJusticeServiced BabyElephantGifs BabyRhinoGifs BadCode BadassAnimals Balisong Barkour BattlestarGalactica BeAmazed BeamNG BeforeNAfterAdoption BestOf BetterEveryLoop BirdsBeingDicks Books Bullshido CanadaHousing CarHacking CatastrophicFailure CatTaps CavePorn ChangeMyView ChoosingBeggars Cinemagraphs ConfidentlyIncorrect ConfusingPerspective ConstantChaos CozyPlaces CrazyIdeas CrappyDesign CreepyWikipedia CryptoCurrency CursedComments CutawayPorn Dachshund DamnNatureYouScary DamnThatsInteresting DataHoarder DeepSpaceNine Deftones DepthHub DeTrashed Documentaries Doggles DogPictures Dogs Dogs_Getting_Dogs DogsOnHardwoodFloors DogsWearingHats DogsWithJobs DogTraining DontDeadOpenInside DumbassPeopleAtWork EarthPorn EarthPornGifs EatCheapAndHealthy EducationalGifs eli5_programming EngineeringPorn EverythingScience ExplainLikeImFive EyeBleach FacebookScience Facepalm FacingTheirParenting FaithInHumanity FastWorkers FirePorn FloridaPoliticianMan Food Freefolk FuckCars FuckYouInParticular Funny Gadgets Gaming Gardening GeoPolitics GetMotivated GifRecipes Gifs GifsThatKeepOnGiving GoodCopFreeDonut Guanajuato HappyCowGifs HardcoreAww HardcoreNature HellscapePorn HelpMeFind HeyThatsNeat History HistoryPorn HitManimals Hmmm HoldMyBeaker HoldMyBeer HoldMyCatnip HoldMyFries HoldMyJuicebox HoldMyRedbull Holup HomeAutomation Humor Hyenas i2p IAmA IAmAJournalist IAmAScience IAmTheMainCharacter IAmVeryStupid ID_News IdiotsFightingThings IdiotsInCars IdiotsInHelicopters IdiotsOnBikes IllegallySmol IllegallySmolCats ImagenAI InfrastructurePorn InstantPot InstantRegret InterestingAsFuck InternetIsBeautiful Investing Ipvs IsaadArthur Jokes Karate KeepOurNetFree Kubuntu Kyokushin LastImages LearnDutch LearnProgramming LegalAdvice LeopardsAteMyFace LifeHacks Linux LinuxMasterRace ListenToThis Longevity LSD LucidDreaming MadeMeCry Maher MaliciousCompliance MapPorn MasterReturns MaybeMaybeMaybe Mechanical_Gifs MedicalAdvice Medicine Medizzy Mexico MildlyDisturbing MildlyInfuriating MischievousGibbons ModeratePolitics Monk MorbidReality Movies MovieStunts MurderedByWords MuseumOfLemmy (yeah, bye reddit) Music MusicalJenga NatureIsBrutal NatureIsFuckingCute NatureIsFuckingLit NatureIsMetal NatureWasMetal NeedAFriend NegativeWithGold Netherlands NeutralNews News NextCloud NightmareFuel NoahGetTheBoat NobodyAsked NoisyGifs NonCredibleDiplomacy NonFunctionSlackFill NoNoNoNo NoNoNoNoAww NoNoNoNoYes NoNoNoNoYesNo NoTakeOnlyThrow NotJustBikes NotTheOnion OddlySatisfying OddlyTerrifying OldFreeFolk OnGuardForThee OnlyOffice OpenSource OpenSourceHardware OrphanCrushingMachine OrvilleFanGame OSHA OutOfTheLoop PerfectFit PerfectLoops PerfectTiming PersecutionFetish PersonalFinanceCanada Philosophy Photography PHP PHPHelp Pics PigGifs PiHole PoliticalDiscussion PoliticalHumor Politics ProgrammerHumor Programming ProgrammingHorror ProphetsForProfit PublicFreakout Puebla PupliftingNews PuppySmiles Queretaro Quokka QuotePorn QuotesPorn RareInsults RBI RedditAlternatives (lol) RedditIsFun (LemmyIsFun?) RelevantXKCD ReligiousFruitcake RepublicanPedophiles RoastMe RuralPorn SadAww SamHarris Science Sciences SelfHosted ShitMomGroupsSay ShockwavePorn ShowerThoughts SkyPorn SlammyWhammies Sleep Space SpecializedTools SpecialNeedsPuppers Sploot SQL StartledCats StoppedWorking StormfrontorSJW Strips SustainedChaos SweatyPalms Sysadmin Technawwlogy Technology TechnologyPorn TechScie Televangelists Tenagra Thalassophobia TheGoodPlace TheHandmaidsTale TheOcho TheOrville TheProblemJonStewart ThereWasAnAttempt TheyDidTheMath ThingsCutInHalfPorn ThisIsMyLifeNow Tifu TikTokCringe TipOfMyTongue TippyTaps TNG TodayILearned Toolbox Torrenting TrueAtheism TrueNews TrumpTweets UpliftingNews USSOrville Vancouver Wallpaper WallpaperDump WatchDogsWoofInside WatchPeopleDieInside WaterPorn Web_Design WebComics WebDev WebDevBuddies WebHosting WhatCouldGoWrong WhatIsThisThing WhosAGoodBoy WinterPornGifs WorldEvents WorldNews WorldPolitics WorseEveryLoop WritingPrompts WTF XKCD YesYesYesDamn Videos
I’m going to miss many of them, I’m a real reddit junkie. But I’m leaving tonight and don’t expect to be back.
Most missed: Witches vs. Patriarchy. Can’t seem to find a lemmy equivalent.
Edit: my first comment!
r/talesfromtechsupport
I just want to find a place where I can say “Taiwan is number one” and “Putin is a bitch”.
