I’ve never been sentimental about a social media site but it’s sad for me to see reddit so clearly killing itself. Pushshift is already banned and Apollo is soon to follow. Reddit will either pivot fully to a mainstream audience or die out. It’s just sad for me to see it doing it to itself.
If by ‘mourn reddit’ you mean ‘process the idea that reddit is as good as dead’ then yes.
I’m not missing it much, though. I like the social engagement part, and I like the getting news part. I used the time-killing part. Lemmy is social engagement and so far it feels much more engaged, more concentrated, less fluff. And the news in Reddit is 1) mostly America-centric anyway and 2) linked from other sources of questionable repute. And time-killing is something I should do less of.
It’s a nice place to find answers and guides, enough so that I use ‘reddit’ as an additional search term if I want relevant, accessible answers that are willing to call out a product’s design for being at fault (if relevant) and suggestion unaffiliated alternatives.
But the communities, the content? I’d barely been engaged there for a year. I loaded it a lot, almost every day; I read it plenty. But I didn’t actually enjoy it very much.
Leaving it behind completely will be difficult when it’s still the best aggregate of user-generated content, at least for now. But actually commenting or posting in it… I’ll be fine.