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Am I the only one having a mini existential crisis for the fact the Reddit is dying? (reddthat.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Like for the past few years, browsing reddit is basically a daily routine for me. Now Reddit is dying, I feel like a part of me died. A website filled with many years of content... will soon be gone. I heard rumours that they are planning to purge the site of "undesirable" content before their IPO. I fear same thing will happen to youtube. I don't have the resources to save all the content online, and watching sites die is painful. Reddit's death triggered my fear for losing all those amazing youtube channels that I occasionally binge rewatch. (Does anyone else rewatch youtube videos over and over on a weekly basis? Maybe I'm just weird.

So this is what the internet is? Just a cycle of sites being born and dying, just like humans being born and dying. Omg whats the meaning of life...

Umm... sorry for the weird existential monologue. Lol

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Same, I am going through the same exact feeling as you are. I had similar existential thoughts on how everything is temporary and fleeting, websites and life... (please don't judge haha, I really had these thoughts)

In a way, Lemmy is exciting and I've got used to it very quickly. It feels like the reddit of old and is surprisingly comfy. However, reddit was a part of some of the best years of my life and helped me become what I'm today personally and professionally. There is a wealth of information on reddit and I hope that doesn't go away.

I will really really miss using reddit, and it will hurt in the short term, but I believe it will be a good thing eventually, especially if the Fediverse replaces it (at least to some extent). Hopefully then we can avoid this happening again and end this cycle.