A long time ago, I played an MMORPG that was scheduled to shut down the beta world. That feeling, in the last moments, of everything around you seeming just as before, but knowing that this could be the last time ever you’re seeing that world. That community.
I’m getting the same feeling looking at reddit right now.

Sure, the blackout might fizzle. The admins might be forced to recant, most subreddits might return. Even if they don’t, reddit could survive in some form.

… or a digg apocalypse is repeated, and we’re all presently witnessing the last moments before the bombs fall and nothing will ever be as it used to be.
A strange feeling, standing on the precipice of Internet history.

  • LvxferreMEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Said mod team is no abiding by the blackout, because they see themselves and their little hive dictatorship as “too important” to participate.

    Uh. Garden Napoleons are always like this. Gotta love them…

    maybe the rest of us normal people can build a new normalized community on the fediverse.

    I don’t even know which is your community, but I seriously hope so. All this Reddit API fiasco has been a blessing disguised as a curse, as I feel that the Fediverse is way more accommodating for all those communities than Reddit ever was.