It’s fine but god dammit all the network effects and preexisting communities (Reddit has one for EVERYTHING) will all be gone now, through no fault of Lemmy

Google doesn’t seem to care to play the cat-and-mouse game anymore.

Hence one reason why I pay for Kagi

People whose first language isn’t English (and especially people who apologize for their English) almost invariably type perfectly, lol

I’d revive yahoo groups in a heartbeat if it is revived with the same feature set

SAME, why did Yahoo shut down, there were so many incredible things to it (but I like forums, too)

Edit: I’m dumb and misspoke, Yahoo itself didn’t shut down but a lot of things in it did

!RemindMe 5 years

All hail the can of beans, the one true Lord

I like to think in the alternate universe where Aaron Swartz doesn’t commit suicide, he eventually ends up making a competitor that doesn’t fall victim to the failures some of these companies have

Sadly, it takes time to build a community, whenever a big site goes down… supposedly (I wasn’t around for it) with Digg there was at least warning, compared to what Reddit did