jae

i’ve found that, since the third party app shutdown, i’m really not using reddit very much. turns out that was mostly a mobile-only experience for me.

ah well. hope the nebulous short-term gain was worth it for them.

gonna be honest, one of the worst impacts for Me Personally of losing reddit (Apollo is essential to my Reddit Experience, their overall trajectory indicates that old.reddit likely isn't long for this world either) is that all of the subreddits i'm in (mostly sports) are going to move to discord.

i understand that everyone's got beef with discord (in general, the executive team and product leadership are on a hot streak of bad decisions) but even disregarding that, i straight up can not use discord. i have some sort of mental block that makes it impossible to meaningfully spend time in a discord server, even the ones that are exclusively my friends. just can't do it. my brain doesn't work that way. the only server i'm even remotely active in is the one we use for work, and that's because i kind of have to be.

the idea of needing to join a server for every single sports subreddit is a fucking nightmare. i can't do that. i will just opt to lose any knowledge of anything happening instead.

as we lose more platforms, the internet keeps getting smaller with no viable replacements. we're in the middle of a major culture shift here and it's really not fun. can say for certain that i'm having a bad time with it.

feeling genuinely very appreciative that reddit has finally become so comprehensively, irredeemably awful that I have no qualms about shutting down my account and the communities I moderate. The outright lies from reddit staff (specifically Steve Huffman) are incredible, and even if the Apollo dev can't keep his app running at least he came equipped to start some fires with shitloads of receipts