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
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
All hail the can of beans, the one true Lord
People whose first language isn't English (and especially people who apologize for their English) almost invariably type perfectly, lol
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
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
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