Reddit refugee, RIP Apollo 7/1/2023. I laugh at comedy and love love.

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Cake day: June 25th, 2023

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  • Google’s AI is really horrible lately. I thought it seemed useful a few months ago and liked that I could ask for up to the minute information that it could pull from the internet…football scores, weather in Costa Rica on different coasts at different times of years. It seemed to pull good info from Reddit or other forum discussions (not just blog spam but things people actually seem to like. Then sometimes it wouldn’t know what day it is. Now it is worse than just google searching what you want. What are the best deals on smart universal remotes? It lists sofabaton and then an RCA and GE remote that aren’t smart but they are promoted on Walmarts website. Then it suggests what to SEARCH. Bitch…you search.






  • I don’t know that anything will be the same because it took so long for everyone to gather there and make 100,000 thriving communities about every random little thing from rare diseases to Pokémon made from toilet paper tubes, sexy John Oliver, kids getting hit on the head. If got interested in some random TV show, you could find a sub where there would be 100 interesting conversations about it. That just doesn’t exist outside of Reddit. Where even could it? Fucking Quora? Facebook groups?

    I don’t know what anyone could have done to preserve it though. If it’s POSSIBLE to slap a million ads on it and make a billion dollars, but definitely ruin it forever…it’s inevitable. Nothing can stop that.


  • I’m sorry. The corporate assholes don’t deserve to pad their fat wallets based on your free labor, but it’s still absolutely the loss of something you love when you step away and it hurts. I’m still grieving losing Apollo and all of the goofy, weird ass little subs and brilliant human beings who made me laugh and cry every day on Reddit. It’s not been replaced in my life. It took millions of us almost 20 years to make that stupid website something incredible…I can’t deny that it was incredible at points.

    It’s gone, it’s just a website now and an app with ads every 3rd pixel just like the rest. There is still some good content and good people, just as there are on TikTok, Bookface, X and insta. The decent shit that is there, on all of the platforms, is overwhelmed by their horrible algorithm trying to sell you shit and increase engagement to monetize your every click.