I was with Reddit for 12 years and bounced between Rif and Apollo, I am sad I am losing both
I just feel bad for the developer. Years spent developing an app for it to be worthless. That has got to be deflating.
Depends how you define ‘worthless’. In the case of Apollo, it certainly wasn’t financially worthless for him. And just to be clear, I have no issue with a quality app developer making money doing what they do.
I mean, actual take-home-pay aside from running Apollo, I have no doubt that Christian will be head-hunted like all hell from so many tech companies. I bet his future is solid gold after this. =)
15 years on reddit for me. Exclusively old.reddit.com and apollo for most of that. That site is dead to me now.
Think of it as fortuitous timing. Reddit is the old internet. Lemmy is the new world. You are one of its early movers. Come fill this place.
Hehe, the actual “old internet” resembles the fediverse of today, it’s what we thought the internet was supposed to be back then. Once corporations found the internet, we got the bullshit we have today.
History repeats itself. The fediverse is going to go downhill too once it gets big enough for corporations to notice it. Enjoy it while it lasts.
Except the code is open source, no matter how many corps invade the Fediverse, there will always be an option.
Too true.
On the plus side, many spurned app-developers seem to be checking out Lemmy and kbin as well.
I’m still a little concerned what happens once instances start getting real traffic though.
Same, but I am optimistic that decentralization will lead to better options for dealing with the problems as they happen.
Might be unpolished, but at least it is ours.
More instances will need to spin up. People aren’t used to having choice so it’ll confuse them at first. Same thing with Linux distributions, people aren’t used to having choice so they don’t know how to go about comparing what’s on offer. They’ll accept making choices at the food market, but are too confused when it comes to OS’s and social media, lol.
I need like a crash course on how this all works. I was so used to subreddits and I’m finding myself lost. I’d love to be a pilot of gardening/brewing/MTG subreddit style thing here but again, I need a crash course
Reddit is the old internet.
Ehhh.
I’d timeline it something like this:
Interaction was on non-Web-based systems, mostly distributed
This was mostly pre-2000s and tended to go into decline in the 1990s or 2000s as Web-based platforms focusing on ease of use picked up users. Many of these were distributed.
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Usenet (decline as a discussion forum dating to maybe late 1990s, though lots of pirated information is still transferred via it)
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IRC, peaking around 2003 according to WP
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Email (peaked later, in 2009, according to WP. Obviously still pretty healthy compared to the above two.
People tend to shift towards interacting with each other on large websites; these tend to later acquire mobile apps to cater to smartphone users.
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Facebook
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YouTube
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Twitter
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Reddit (though a fair number of third-party clients did exist)
If the Fediverse manages to pick up a lot of people, it’s probably somewhat-closer to the first phase.
IRC was great back then. The other day I jumped on Undernet because I was feeling nostalgic. It’s still running but didn’t have much activity. The fact that it still exists made me smile.
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“Old Internet” - I like it!
The old internet was great. I had a lot of fun with the local bbs, irc, and telnet talkers. It was a simpler time.
Well the good news is that the RIF dev is working on an app for Tildes. So god-willing at least it will stick exist in some form.
Hopefully Tildes stops the invite only thing.
