[gdiamos]

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.

[spyder]

Huh... Moved on to where?

[gdiamos]

Mostly talking to people irl

Good communities are tough to find and you have to constantly build them

[mbirth]

I hear Usenet is getting a bit more popular again. Also traditional forums for those niche topics.

[nvarsj]

It still has good communities I'd say. It depends hugely on the mods. There's nothing else like /r/anime, for example.

[DaSHacka]

> 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.

[nvarsj]

The community fostered at /r/anime by mods is completely different to the chaos of MAL and /a/.

[perching_aix]

I'm really not sure those three communities are all that comparable / compatible...