aorish:

Honestly the reddit API thing kinda has me freaked out. Not that I care too much about reddit specifically, but it’s a sign of just how much borrowed time social media is really on, how much pressure there is and how little money is really left to go around. “We” all knew back in 2008 that none of this was built to last, that everything would collapse when it couldn’t turn a profit. It kept proving us wrong somehow, but it looks like that might finally be over.

I hope tumblr stays around for a few years at least. I hope even if it doesn’t, that it doesn’t just go down one day, never to return. And I hope when it finally does go away, as all things do, that there’s still something left, either Discord or some new platform, or hell, even irc or forums if nothing else. Just…. something. I’m not sure how I’d ever manage to talk to anyone like me otherwise. If this is the end of the golden age of the internet, I have to say I wish I’d been less productive the last twenty years and spend more time goofing off while it lasted.

Currently making my own privately hosted website to connect and back up all the many different things I do online. I encourage as many people as possible to do the same.

We’ll “follow” and “reblog” each other by putting links on our websites. We’ll do “social media” in the form of email chains cc’d to as many people as you want in the chat. As long as those are still options, we can adapt.