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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • I agree with the above convo you’ve been having, but your comment made me think, so I’ll play a little devils advocate here: do we want 1000 “I agree.” comments following each other comment? Not really. There needs to be a simple way to say “I like this but don’t have anything to add”. An upvote accomplishes this.

    As for downvotes, yes they need to be more than “I disagree”. Something akin to “I don’t think this contributes”. I liked someone’s suggestion that we need more than the binary up and down. Maybe a “troll” vote too.


  • You’re missing the point. If I email you, are we talking ON Gmail? ON Hotmail? Not really. We’re using our different clients to interact with the same original message. Sure, the message gets converted to your emails specific formatting, but it’s just a copy of the original info. The message itself is the conversation, the clients are just access to it.

    You wouldn’t say “I drove my Honda to the store”. You’d say “I drove my car”.

    Nobody said “I’m browsing Apollo/Sync/RIF”. You’d say “I’m browsing Reddit” or “fuck spez”.

    You’re one step from being the mom that calls every video game system a “Nintendo”.


  • Yeah, but people move on too. Do you expect every single person who ever contributed to repost their content when a migration happens? Of course not. It’s just not realistic. But actual info gets lost. Old game faqs vanish. Answers to niche questions poof out of existence. Yes, the world isn’t over and things will move on. But actual, tangible value was lost with the death of reddit. A large portion of the internets “How To” guide just went up in flames. And a lot of that won’t ever get rebuilt. Many of us who have been around long enough have also seen that dark side to these things.

    It’s a shame, is all. But time keeps moving and so will we.