All my favorite niches have gone to Discord.

Freaking Discord. A black hole where anything useful is buried under mountains of folks shooting the breeze. Oh, and with a useless search function.

Every. Single. Niche. Even self-hosting ones like localllama.

Reddit may be dead and enshittified, but at least it was accessible to search engines

Hardly matters though, as they just randomly shadowban me anyway...

oh, stop it you <3. In all seriousness though this whole post's comment section Is just proof of what im saying. Gotta spread that love around Im just saying what we all kind of silently agree on.

I feel kind of bad though everyone should feel this sense of community.

Same! Boost Is definitely the best ive found. Even the free version is incredible the ads only apear in a tiny box at the bottom in the comments section. Super unintrusive, I supported Immediately after testing out other options and landing back on boost.

I just wish they could somehow implement saving posts and going back through upvoted content similar to how it worked on reddit, but i understand that there are probably technical limitations and less financial insentive.

Openly? Banned.

You can if you go outside and make friends.

Same, you can verify by checking my reddit under the same name.

True, Generally I meet people though hyper-specific hobbies like fighting games or MTG. All of which have a pretty sizable upfront cost to enjoy. Not to mention the events are usually at a store, restaraunt, venue etc. All of which costs money. Im finding it harder and harder to justify financially and I cant imagine its much better for anyone else.

I wonder if discord shuts down due to lets say its predator problem, will this be a library of alexandria type event? Obviously wed attempt to grab as much as we can before the "library" burns down, but how? To my understanding every server owner would have to install a bot to grab all of that data themselves.

Someone please tell me im wrong and why because I hate this.

Before the API thing there was only one “am I the asshole” subreddit.

a library of alexandria type event

It already feels like that, because useful knowledge just fades away into chitchat in Discord.

But yeah, I think it would be. There are already some scraping tools (and apparently, some chat archives built by hackers), but without some crazy hack, there's just no way around communities being invite only.

I think it really boils down to the owners of the servers doing the right thing. I mean that in terms of properly organizing the important information on their server and archiving it elsewhere simulateously.

Otherwise yeah I agree its just a furnace In which data is being shoveled into, Rather than a single event as I implied.

Again, someone knowlegable please tell me we are wrong, and a solution exists, or is in development.

What happened? Did the original mods protest and reddit itself just make a new one? I know there were alot of communities that shut down for a day or two when the API changes happened.

Yeah. I like MTG too. But what I try to do is make at least one new close friend every year. And then I’ll do stuff like host barbecues and shit and make friends with their friends. And my friend group expands. And then I have people to go jogging with or go on hikes with or go camping with or even just sit around and play cards with, all very cheap things to do. And I have a massive friend group now.

You have to put effort in though if you want that sense of community. It doesn’t just spontaneously happen to you.

I was banned for reporting trolls. They called it "abuse of the report button."

Adding NFT? In 2025? They really are desperate..

Im glad thats working for you and I hope that someone reads this and gets value out of it. but no offense I think we just live entirely different lifestyles and value different things.

I will agree that your lifestyle is definitely healthier for the community at large, and politically speaking your local area is healthier having you and others socializing about or engaging with current events.

I think outliers like myself must exist in some way. While nothing I produce currently is on the same level as lets say an artist or musician. Someday I will write, program, or even just share something ive made that gives me the value and purpose I seek.

Selfish? probably, but I am constantly learning about new things and perspectives. Lemmy just happens to be a highway into other peoples minds that I very much enjoy. I did not mean to imply that I desire the same level of social belonging that others have. Ive got my family, animals, significant other, all of my remaining energy belongs to them.

Heck maybe im an asshole and youre about to slap me with a truth bomb, and thats why im here.

Reddit died with Aaron. The fact you're still trying to milk Internet points from that site, using Reddit-style, low effort posting, only reveals you're the kind of user that ruined it in the first place.

Don't Reddit my Lemmy

Art and music are not the only things of value to share with society. You can build or farm or create other things of value that you are proud of that are beneficial to society. Social structures and building community are also insanely valuable and our loss of this is one of the big reasons our society is becoming distant and segregated and weakened against oppression. An online space is not a good replacement for this, especially in the current social climate of the world and the current technological situation. Like enjoy it, but it’s candy, it’s an unhealthy substitute for the real thing. But I do also understand how tiresome the world is and I think we can all enjoy a little bit of guilty pleasure when you’re too tired to do anything else. But you absolutely have to recognize it for what it is.

Yeah this pisses me off so bad when I need to search for something and the only answers are on reddit. Is there a way around this?