[HN Gopher] r/ProgrammerHumor will be shutting down to protest R... ___________________________________________________________________ r/ProgrammerHumor will be shutting down to protest Reddit's API changes Author : owenpalmer Score : 39 points Date : 2023-06-08 22:14 UTC (46 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (old.reddit.com) (TXT) w3m dump (old.reddit.com) | [deleted] | icameron wrote: | I decided to use this as a good excuse to delete Reddit. I find | myself going to it too often, and scrolling for too long, and | afterwards I feel worse about the direction of humanity and down | about the world. I'm not getting anything positive from it so for | my own mental heath I'm deleting the app. | yakshaving_jgt wrote: | It'd be nice if the Haskell subreddit found a new home. I don't | know why Reddit is so generally toxic, but it is. | nerdchum wrote: | It's because like four moderators control like most of the main | subreddits. | hifromLA wrote: | You'd be hard pressed to find social media that doesn't trend | towards toxicity, but Reddit in particular seems to have a | culture of users that want to feel superior at any cost. | They're always looking to put down others and they're often | rewarded for doing so. | mhitza wrote: | https://discourse.haskell.org could be that new home. However | most new users would expect a programming subreddit language to | exist. | diego_moita wrote: | I wish I had a lobste.rs membership now. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-06-08 23:01 UTC)