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?

Aaron was about as much a cofounder of reddit as Musk is a cofounder of tesla.
Source: I was on reddit when he joined and I remember his own yc-startup Infogami.

I feel that i fully aknowlaged the selfishness of my actions in terms of the value I bring to society. I simply disagree with the idea that this is for everyone. There have always been outliers or introverts, and they will and have provided value where they can, even If, like you said, its not actually productive to the average experience of the everyday person(like your farm example). Even so I do believe people can do great things from the relative Isolation of their peers. A book for example could radicalize millions.

I will admit that resisting opression by communicating thoughts and ideas with others is paramount, and me and others like me are possibly doing a disservice to the rest of our communities by not being present. But as long as the "isolation" is not a coping mechanism, I don't see an issue. Sure interaction like this is surface level but to say its unhealthy... Ill agree that too much of this Is unhealthy, but that applies to almost everything. With anything that effects your brain, its all about your relationship with that substace or action not just the substance or action itself.

To me, its as if you view introversion as a mental illness rather than a personality type or lifestyle. Please correct me if im wrong.

yea i knew a unmodered sub that was banned for having next to no post or moderators, but that is a very very small and niche sub.

vultures(AI) are just pecking at the decomposing corpse.

it was the same time, a article reported that reddit was mostly 50% bots, what acoincidence. i can see it being bots mostly, because many subs have a bot posts people were accusing it of. non-propaganda bots can come in the hundreds, or thousands of account by 1 individual too.

too bad most of them are on reddit subs.

reddit apparently is still valuable for people to make money off using bots, that arnt propaganda bots. it just involves getting enough people to get on yuor OF accounts, or if your using links to your business website. of course these bots usually wont target the large subs for recognition, because you mostly will be easily banned and filtered out from the famous subs very quickly, they use obscure ones where reddit wouldnt immediately notice them.

they want to paywall subs eventually, plus becoming a facebook clone down the line, where the datamining features included, like requiring your REAL ID, facial recognition, i suspect thier bannings propensity will get more intense as facebook too if you try to "lie" on your credentials.

now theres like 4 of them, most of them are bots, or written by a person that is gauging peoples reaction(for thier personal projects)

i remember the original AITA was private for a while, then came out AITAH, and then AIO, and then a couple of other ones.

I use RedLib but I make it even easier by having an extension LibRidirect that automatically redirects reddit links to privacy frontends such as RedLib. It's really easy to use and I don't even have to think about using Reddit ever again. Win-win in my book.