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The ones that are permanently blacking out are the hardest. I kept telling myself that if nothing else, at least I could visit the pale shadows of the old places I enjoyed via desktop. But /r/dndmemes is probably closing forever and I wasn’t quite ready for that.
There’s /c/dndmemes@sh.itjust.works, though, and perhaps others eventually. So the magic may someday return.
Just checked and it’s at 1/3 of the planned shutdowns now.
This is the number one source of reassurance I give people who object that Lemmy is “overrun by tankies.” That was just the earliest niche community that happened to jump ship in this particular direction. Now, even at this early stage, Lemmy is being overrun by everyone else.
Older audiences are more likely to dislike the new changes, though. They’ve been on Reddit for a long time and will be aware of how much better it used to be.
The only hope I have for Reddit - and it’s a vain one, I fully recognize - is that after shareholders buy it they might put a board of directors in place who go “hey, our userbase is bleeding profusely and Reddit alternatives are flourishing, maybe we should do something to staunch that if we want this thing to retain any value.”
The current owners evidently don’t believe that, so an IPO that swaps them out is the only option.
They’re /r/unexpected, so if they were to state one or the other I don’t know if that could be trusted anyway.
Indeed. I’ve used RiF forever with Reddit, it has such a nice clean interface and is so well polished. It’s such a shame to throw something like that away.
How very magnanimous of Reddit. They went way too far, and now they’re inching backward to try to find the absolute limit of what they can get away with.
I think we’ll see a temporary “return to normalcy” after the protest finishes and most subs come back online. But come June 30 and the end of third-party apps, we’ll see a bunch of users come back to Lemmy/Kbin again.
In a way, this seems like the best way of driving things. The protest has raised awareness and got a ton of development work going, and then there’s going to be a respite giving instances time to prepare themselves for the second surge.