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1 month agoI never made a claim that Lemmy was even remotely comparable to reddit in size. Just stating that reddit users fled to here, when reddit made staggering changes affecting many.
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There was also DIGG. There were several large aggregators, but they all made changes that lead to mass exoduses to reddit. Back in the day there were sites like SomethingAwful, EBaumsWorld that served up memes and entertainment before we had purpose-built aggregation tools. Eventually reddit will make way for something else (and already has to some degree with its shedding of users to Lemmy).
What, you don’t want to have to click more for the same thing? But the UI designer’s feels will get hurt!
I want to go back to the days of shitty UI’s made by engineers that, despite looking like ass, NEVER broke and ALWAYS worked.
We have this requirement called truth in advertising, but it doesn’t seem to apply to billionaires.
Still looking for that backup of that disk with my bitcoin wallet from the early days… sadly probably gone forever.
“What do you have to say to your advertisers?”
‘go fuck yourselves’
‘also we’re raising prices for an unrelated reason’