I miss Reddit

I miss Reddit. Every so often I look at my phone and remember how much time I've spent on Apollo, checking out awesome posts from cool people on the internet. Every little obscure hobby, community, and group had a spot, from BattleBots to Midnight Club players to laser engraving.

But, like so many other people, I deleted my Reddit posts and account when the greedy bastards made it nigh impossible for any third party app to function, and Apollo, along with many other neat apps, died.

Now I'm on Lemmy, operating my own instance at https://usenet.lol, but somehow, it's just not the same. Not enough people use Lemmy to carry that same magic of finding people who love the same obscure things you do. Discovery is available through a few third-party aggregators, but is a bit of a pain to use. The memes are top notch though!

I fear we'll never recapture the magic of Reddit, but I sincerely hope we do, someday, safe in the arms of the community where no evil money-grubbing corporation will ever snatch it away.

I've thought about rejoining Reddit, but when I remember how they massacred my boy, I renew my vows to never go back. I've used the Reddit official app, and it's a steaming pile of absolute dogshit. Reddit remains in the Hall of Dead To Me, between Twitter and Meta.

Damn shame, because it was the best.

Nico