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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.

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[–] styxbane@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This morning, I was mourning it. However, I made a post asking a really simple question earlier but was instead attacked. It was truly such a simple question about something related to my house. So, not anymore.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Lol, been there.

Was it on r/HomeImprovement by chance?

As a long time lurker, occasional asker/answerer, my experience has pretty much been like this recently:

Ask how to change a lightbulb and within half an hour you'll have 6 replies asking if you got a permit for that, 3 asking if you really need a permit, 2 saying "no, you don't need a permit", someone else brand new chiming in "ackshually you do", and finally 1 awesome person that answers your question but somehow gets downvoted into oblivion.

[–] styxbane@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It was on r/fixit. Every single time I ask a question on there I somehow get attacked every time. Last time I asked how to fix something on my kids toy box and someone said "maybe you shouldn't have kids if they are going to destroy stuff". sir. For real? You ever seen a child?

[–] howmanytacos@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

They probably haven't left their basement long enough to see a child lol

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 3 points 1 year ago

That....sounds about right, sadly.