It has been a month since the Reddit blackout began...

If you weren't a redditor, or weren't an active one, I can see not understanding the public grief over reddit.

I was a reddit mod. I attended and ran dozens of reddit meetups. I made numerous friends from reddit. I had 2 relationships because of reddit. I watched 2 couples get married because of reddit, and because I introduced my reddit friends to my larp friends, I caused 2 more.

I have an "Open Sourceror" badge on my reddit profile, because 13 years ago I made a patch for reddit so that /r/friends/comments would show comments, including in an RSS feed, so reddit could be used with Gwibber on Ubuntu. Later they killed the RSS feed access if you weren't logged in, but you could still use it through the API. Now they've killed the API too.

reddit wasn't just a link aggregator site. In lots of places it was a source of community, and a source of advice on niche topics. I dropped my reddit scrolling to near zilch, but I still pop in to give advice for those groups, because they're not going to get it elsewhere right now.

So for some, it was just a place for memes, and they can find them elsewhere. For others, it was 14 years of community. It's only been a month. Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me.

You gotta start subbing to communities lol

I've thought this a few times now. I left reddit to move on from reddit. Folks here are fiending for their fix lol

It would be more like going to Wendys and telling everyone there how much you hate McDonalds.

Yeah, coming here has been a bit of a touching grass moment for me. It was only Reddit not the apocalypse.

It is, but I still miss the witches. Where are you, ladies?

Ironically enough, reddit is the worst possible place for news about reddit.