this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
13 points (100.0% liked)

SNOOcalypse - document, discuss, and promote the downfall of Reddit.

4683 readers
1 users here now

SNOOcalypse is closing down. If you wish to talk about Reddit, check out [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected].

This community welcomes anyone who wants to see Reddit gone. Nuke the Snoo!

When sharing links, please also share an archived version of the target of your link.

Rules:

  1. Follow lemmy.ml's global rules and code of conduct.
  2. Keep it on-topic.
  3. Don't promote illegal stuff here.
  4. Don't be stupid, noisy, obnoxious or obtuse (S.N.O.O.)
  5. Have fun, and enjoy the popcorn! ๐Ÿฟ

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
13
Browsing subreddits about to go dark for good feels surreal (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
11 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

A long time ago, I played an MMORPG that was scheduled to shut down the beta world. That feeling, in the last moments, of everything around you seeming just as before, but knowing that this could be the last time ever you're seeing that world. That community.
I'm getting the same feeling looking at reddit right now.

Sure, the blackout might fizzle. The admins might be forced to recant, most subreddits might return. Even if they don't, reddit could survive in some form.

... or a digg apocalypse is repeated, and we're all presently witnessing the last moments before the bombs fall and nothing will ever be as it used to be.
A strange feeling, standing on the precipice of Internet history.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] plain_jane 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I've been in online communities for a very long time. Reddit has been one of them for a very long time (over a decade) and my only home for years now. You've described the feeling well. And it's so nice to be able to talk to people about it because this is A Very Big Deal to me, but nobody I know in my "real" life, even the people who visit Reddit, are interested in what's going on.

And I'm over here like my best friend is on life support... (On life support and we all know the prognosis is grim.)

Anyway, take care.