I thought with all the drama and negativity it would be good to take stock of some positive things people got from Reddit. One of my faves was reading Woody Harrelson’s crazy trainwreck AMA
Downvoting EA’s “sense of pride and accomplishment” comment to oblivion was quite satisfying
I loved when all the subs banded together to protest against the API prices.
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The first /r/place was seriously one of the coolest and most chaotic things to watch unfold in real-time!
I wasn’t there when it happened, but the second r/place was amazing. The best experience I had on Reddit by far. I hope cool stuff like that also happens here on Lemmy
There are a few for me.
One was the AskReddit post where someone asked what popular actor should just come out of the closet already.
The other was a novelty account I found who would just drop into random threads with a long rambling posts that started out normal and on-topic but gradually got more and more insane until they finally ended with a classic advertising slogan.
The askreddit thread where someone asked for advice about going clubbing, and every reply was just explaining how to club a seal to death.
We got someone doing the lords work copying some of the crazy stories from Reddit over at !archive@lemmy.world
Worth a look as long as you have a strong stomach because of some of those legendary stories (Swamps of Dagobah comes to mind)
Great thank you for this!
The hilarity of celebrities doing an AMA and instead treating it as a typical “interview”. I think it was Woody Harrelson trying to do an AMA but specifically only wanting to discuss his movie? Reddit of course asked about everything but that
That is a great comment and all, but can we get back to talking about Rampart.
Yes, and I believe he had an assistant do his answers for him or something. Hah
rdrama.net exposing pedophiles in r/teenagers
The Tommy Wiseau AMA was the funniest goddamned thing I ever saw, especially when one user, with a longstanding theory that Wiseau was, in fact, D.B. Cooper confronted him with that theory.
Wiseau categorically denied it in, perhaps, the most suspicious and hilarious way, leaving readers still wondering. I’ll never forget it, because he is either a comedic genius or is actually D.B. Cooper. Possibly both?
The guy who posted on Legal Advice who thought his landlord was stalking him and moving things around in his apartment. Someone told him to check for a gas leak in the apartment and yup, a gas leak was causing memory loss.
I remember this too! Amazing
I made friends and met my wife on Reddit! :) I’ll miss it definitely.
I always wondered how people do this. It seems to me the odds are so low to run into somebody you connect with on a deeper level on reddit or the like.
I definitely lucked out :)
Most of my friends came through the /r/WWEGames because we were creating characters and making a show from it (ultra nerdy!), and my wife and I met because I replied to one of her “I want to make a friend” posts on a friendmaking sub, and we started messaging off Reddit after a day or two. It’s rare, but given I was on there for 7ish years, I guess the odds increase over time. :)
I feel already like Lemmy has much better community-feel, like I’m not fearing an angry person all the time when I comment! Hopefully it stays this welcoming :)
Nothing specific, but these few and wholesome moments when two other people don’t argue, but one admits a mistake and appreciates the feedback in order to learn. It’s nice when people are open and nice.
I know most redditors got sick of meme comments and silly jokes rising to the top of every thread, but the first time I discovered and went down “the 'ole Reddit switcheroo” rabbit-hole was delightful. I love wordplay jokes and to see so many different people keeping the meme going, I realized I had found the site I wanted to browse on all my bathroom breaks.
RogerSimon10, I always wondered if his dad finally beat him to death with those jumper cables
i want to keep coming to Lemmy, hoping we will have alternates even IF reddit moves back (it wont)
Lemmy should pass on the torch if it gets too old. Platforms are not meant to hang around so long. Things need to be torn down and rebuilt. Like natural cycles of forest fires… Maybe with a federated model instances that get old and rotten can easily be abandoned. Unlike reddit (and other modern social platforms) that monopolized the entire market.
