<3 yous. a lot of people now on lemmy are like “whatever I don’t even remember reddit what was it even” because their minecraft memes or whatever have moved here or elsewhere. personally I found reddit the most remarkable for the non-tech subs. I am not worried about being unable to post to a linux forum because there are a bazillion of them. I do really mourn the DIY subs and other niches and hobbies. /r/homeimprovement was a great sub along with the constellation of related subs. I doubt /r/askanelectrician or /r/hardwoodfloors or /r/redneckengineering will be reestablished here even if a general /r/homeimprovement could find a footing. And they mutually feed into each other as communities. /r/homeimprovement wouldn’t be able to thrive in the same way without the smaller subs and vice-versa. The large numbers of users who can easily discover new forums once they get into things in some way. That’s how I got involved anyway so just extrapolating. :D

I noticed on the verge articles about reddit they have an open call for reddit mods to contact them. I would really love to see some coverage of non-tech subs and how this all is shaking out for them. I really do not think is is just OK to say “well, whatever” and just move on. I think people like you made reddit a fantastic place especially for the non-tech stuff. It is really really sad to see it all destroyed. I think at the very least the full carnage should be examined. Please pass tat thought to anyone else who might want to share. (There might be a better place to share than the verge; I don’t follow tech news usually so I don’t know it.)

But either way <3 yous. thank you for your service