3 ms·

I unplugged from Reddit when they did this and my life is much better. Reddit had a good community and content in the early days, but as it grew in popularity

I unplugged from Reddit when they did this and my life is much better. Reddit had a good community and content in the early days, but as it grew in popularity and squeezed profit the value dropped. I think it’s funny that early LLM projects were bootstrapped by scraping Reddit. I guess it was better than random garbage from common crawl, but the world has moved on.

nvarsj 2y ago
It still has good communities I'd say. It depends hugely on the mods. There's nothing else like /r/anime, for example.
- DaSHacka 2y ago
  > There's nothing else like /r/anime, for example. /a/? MAL? I think anime discussion is one of the few topics readily abundant elsewhere on the web, it's the other niches that are really hard to find.
  - perching_aix 2y ago
    I'm really not sure those three communities are all that comparable / compatible...
  - nvarsj 2y ago
    The community fostered at /r/anime by mods is completely different to the chaos of MAL and /a/.
spyder 2y ago
Huh... Moved on to where?
- gdiamos 2y ago
  Mostly talking to people irl Good communities are tough to find and you have to constantly build them
- mbirth 2y ago
  I hear Usenet is getting a bit more popular again. Also traditional forums for those niche topics.