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It really feels like Lemmy is alive because of you.

When I first checked out Lemmy, I wasn't expecting there to be so much content, so much discussion, and so much community. But I've spent the better part of two days glued to my screen, browsing content all day. I've seen so many posts, so many interesting discussions about the fediverse, and of course, plenty of memes. It really feels like the start of something incredible.

I've gotta get back to work soon, but wow. I think this whole fediverse thing really is the next step for social media. If I find some extra time, I'll definitely consider contributing to Lemmy's source code to help this project and the FOSS ecosystem grow.

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[-] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 86 points 1 year ago

Lemmy definitely scratched the Reddit itch for me, and I don't see myself going back. Unfortunately however, it is still a huge container of information that I still find myself relying on if I need to search for something.

[-] unwinagainstable@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

The information contained in past posts and comments on Reddit is immense. Usually, the easiest way for me to find advice is a Google search that includes “Reddit” in the search field. It almost always returns a comment with exactly the information I was looking for

[-] BeardyGrumps@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

I was looking for support for a network issue and google returned me to several Reddit posts. Everyone of them was deleted or the sub was private. It’s usefulness it’s diminishing real quick.

[-] beneeney@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

If the sub is private, you can add "cache:" to the very beginning of the URL. Before the https. That will grab a cached version of before it went private, very helpful. Not sure if it works for deleted stuff tho.

[-] BeardyGrumps@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That’s great to know.. Ty.

[-] EricHill78@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That's a game changer. I had no idea about that.

[-] grissee@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

as a software dev this also make me sad, but I hope chatgpt can fill that gap left by reddit

[-] Hizeh@hizeh.com 3 points 1 year ago

ChatGPT was probably trained on that data. ChatGPT remembers... like an elephant.

[-] stark@qlemmy.com 4 points 1 year ago

As someone who works in IT, this is very unfortunate. While I don't agree with what Reddit is doing, I don't think we should scorch the site. Its an immense archive of information that can be referenced.

[-] BeardyGrumps@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It a dilemma isn't it. If you had a business partner that decided to change the terms of the relationship so that you felt you had to leave would you let them keep the intellectual property to allow them still to make money from whilst you had nothing?

I thought about it long and hard and decided that I would take all my information as an archive and remove it from reddit. Once we have an alternative I will be more than happy to upload it to another resource.

[-] Aimhere@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Heck, Google usually includes Reddit results in general searches anyway, conveniently grouped together near the top of the results. We can only hope they start doing the same for Lemmy (and the Fediverse in general).

[-] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago

on duckduckgo I use site:reddit.com and the results will only include links to reddit, I find it better than Reddit's search (duh)

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