But Also I Think Maybe It Was Just Worse - Tumblr Posts

(Reblogging this because this is the post that finally inspired me to go searching)

I’ve been seeing the tag r/196 a lot from Reddit refugees and such, so being a former redditor myself (I stopped using the platform very much before it crashed and burned) I looked into it.

It’s a subreddit where the only rule is if you show up, you have to post something before you leave. The top posts of all time are incredible Reddit content— the third top is a condom full of spaghetti, the fourth is “like if you genuinely fucking despise this website,” and five and six seem to be back to back posts by the same guy, no idea how far apart time-wise they were posted, with five second videos of pilots captioned “go fuck that guy’s mom” and “roger, on my way to fuck that guy’s mom.” The “hot” posts truly made my heart ache for this community, because it was a whole lot of “for old time’s sake” and “one last one before this place closes down” and such. It locked around 20 days ago.

Let me be clear: overall, tumblr is much better than Reddit, and all you 196ers will be much happier and safer here, especially since we all sort of follow that rule here anyways. However, for all the bashing we‘ve done on Reddit and redditors, which we were correct to do about political subreddits and the horrible trolls and people just using it as a place to make personal attacks… Reddit had a lot of really good communities on it. Strong, personal, intimate, loving communities, like little villages except you could be in more than one, and it was truly special beautiful, and it’s being lost because the idiots controlling it couldn’t get themselves together and thought they were calling a bluff that just wasn’t a bluff at all.

I will not regret Reddit’s death. I will not wish for its revival. But I will mourn it. I will mourn with you, r/196, and I will argue with you about columns or whatever it is y’all did there. I’d love for y’all to tell me stories or fill me in on inside jokes or bits, because I love the little Reddit communities and I yearn to know everything I can about this beautiful piece of art which is being lost to time.

I cannot say it enough: redditors, TUMBLR WELCOMES YOU.

man this place seems like a really good alternative to Twitter and Reddit for real. I'm beginning to love this place. And some people even recognise me here :3

Still gonna stay on the sinking ships tho, until we finally hit rock bottom