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  • eldavi@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    10+ years from now reddit will be at reduced popularity, but still a major player in the social media scene. i say this because i left other social media sites before the term “social media” existed and those old sites are still chugging along, making money for the new owners despite a 75%-ish drop in users and content.

    i’ve been wantin to leave reddit for a while and the changes gave me the final straw i needed to make the jump; you should be leaving reddit because it benefits you somehow. there’s nothing you can do to affect reddit unless you have enough money to affect a change in its direction.

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      1 year ago

      It’s gonna take a little getting used too, and there are some subs that it’ll take awhile to replace

      But I haven’t been on Reddit since Apollo stopped working on the 30th so it’s somethin

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I was banned from reddit so to me lemmy is a place I get to have a voice again.

      Also it’s really cool to see the precise up and down numbers instead of reddit’s intentionally-obfuscated probabilistically nonoffensive “scores”.

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    1 year ago

    Best case scenario is that in the next ten years reddit becomes the equivalent of bing. Still around, but who really gives a shit

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      You’re telling me my work computer will have reddit pre-configured as the default search engine, and I’ll have to manually type in google.com any time I want to search?

      • Thekingoflorda@lemmy.worldM
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        1 year ago

        I know, it’s just that Selig was such an amazing dev, and that apollo was just a lot more fleshed out than wefwef currently.

        Wefwef is still amazing though, and that it’s this good, so quickly, is mindblowing.

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          1 year ago

          I wonder how much effort it would take to make Apollo itself work with lemmy’s apis.

          I bet there would be some work to modify things to handle the multi-instance thing, but a ton of that code could be re-used if it’s built correctly.

          And although I don’t know it directly, I know indirectly that his code must be well organized, just based on how smooth and functional apollo was.