as the title says, all of these frontends are dead now, which means that its impossible to view any of the datat that exists on these sites if we dont own an account

is that it? should we just quit using these sites or what?

  • @domsch@feddit.de
    link
    fedilink
    English
    281 year ago

    With things like Blizzard it’s “easy”. I don’t NEED Diablo 4. I’d like it, but i’m not going to get it out of principle. But Reddit is different. I don’t need it as a social media platform or to post myself, but for me, a huge portion of relevant online search results are from reddit. I pretty much run into tech and non-tech issues on a daily basis that are only documented or solved by a years old reddit post. And i’m pretty sad to see that go. Not the social part of reddit, but having so much condensed knowledge in a single place.

    And while lemmy is nice it isn’t an alternative until i can move instances and subscribe to communities without having a pending status for weeks. You also can’t search online for lemmy because of motörhead and because every instance names itself.

    • @SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      link
      fedilink
      English
      101 year ago

      I would argue reddit shouldn’t have been used for tech stuff and troubleshooting as much as it was. Neither should discord for that matter.

      For this purpose wikis and old-school forums worked well. I hope we go more back to that.