• skepller@lemmy.world
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    Created my account yesterday because of this!

    Been meaning to migrate to Lemmy for a while and seemed like the push I needed

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      I miss the good old days when reddit admins still pretended to be part of the community. Anybody remember the “when this post is [x hours old] reddit will go down for [xyz]” posts? Then the admins were in the thread cracking jokes with everyone about the fact that their servers were powered by hamster wheels and they couldn’t afford a programmer? Oh how the times have changed…

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        The admins also liked those days better than current times, I’m sure. It’s just a money issue. Reddit wasn’t profitable back than (still isn’t, I think), so it needed an investor. An investor watch it’s money back eventually, so you’re gonna have to make changes. Often times those changes suck

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    I was having trouble with the Stealth app and old.reddit around that time, but “new” reddit was working just fine. Having kinda mixed feelings that it was just a temporary outage and they didn’t finally nuke old.reddit.

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    On a friday evening/night in the US? lol. Not exactly peak hours. I wonder what stupid shit they pushed to prod.

    As a side note, I sideload Apollo for a few niche communities on reddit that don’t exist here on Lemmy. But I was having intermittent issues a few hours before reddit actually went dark.

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      I sideload Apollo for a few niche communities on reddit that don’t exist here on Lemmy.

      Why not make 'em? That’s what I did. Try to get away from Reddit completely by recreating your favorite subs as communities here. I’m really glad I’m on here and hope we can continue to grow this replacement.

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          Wow, you certainly sunk in more resources than I did! I didn’t mean that you should run the community anywhere near that deeply; I meant just to create it so that there could be a home for Lemmy’s fans of the topic, who would then carry it on. But yeah, unless you’re getting something personal out of it then it’s not worth the effort.