I felt like a Reddit old-timer and I have (had?) been on there 12 years, ha ha! Seventeen years is wild! I don’t have much enthusiasm for staying/going back, either.
One thing i’ve been thinking since a recent CatValente essay from a few days ago, regarding Reddit: Saying “Fuck Spez” sounds quite nice and is catchy but kinda makes it feel like Steve Huffman was one of your buddies that betrayed you, and he never was. We should start using his full name, and accordingly distancing us from that person. Let’s not give him even the privilege of using a nickname. His name is Steve Huffman and we should stop using “Spez” altogether.
I felt like a Reddit old-timer and I have (had?) been on there 12 years, ha ha! Seventeen years is wild! I don’t have much enthusiasm for staying/going back, either.
Tell me about it! It was hard nuking 17 years worth of content–effectively my online identity–but it was the right thing to do.
FWIW, from a Reddit old timer, Lemmy feels a LOT closer to those early days than whatever is calling itself Reddit these days.
Yes! 17 years too! Mentioned it on a Discord and somebody offered to do it for me, but no, it had to be me, i owed that account at least that.
You know what was surprisingly hard too? Deleting the RemindMeBot reminders. Felt almost as hard.
12 years here.
It was evident that Reddit was not going to play nice the moment Mr. Huffman opened his big trap on network television. Fuck /u/spez, and Fuck Reddit
Lemmy is so much better and it reminds me of what was long lost back in the earliest days of reddit. It’s so much nicer here on Lemmy in general.
Initially; I intended to stay in line with the protest and only close for the 2 days initially proposed.
One thing i’ve been thinking since a recent CatValente essay from a few days ago, regarding Reddit: Saying “Fuck Spez” sounds quite nice and is catchy but kinda makes it feel like Steve Huffman was one of your buddies that betrayed you, and he never was. We should start using his full name, and accordingly distancing us from that person. Let’s not give him even the privilege of using a nickname. His name is Steve Huffman and we should stop using “Spez” altogether.