Remember Marauder, whose title screen featured a loop of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” theme song? (This, after the packaging warned that this program was only supposed to be used to make legal copies?)

Imagine. My. Surprise.

It might…but, then again, once the API is closed and the “objectionable” subreddits are banned in order to prepare for an IPO, the resulting landscape there might be much the same as when the blackout was in force.

I’ve got to hand it to them, they did an effective job of suppressing Lemmy – I never even heard of its existence until last night.

Well, I hope this means that all those who followed this subreddit will come over here because, in the end, if Lemmy provides enough content to be a Reddit successor, it will succeed but, if it becomes a mere shadow of what was available there, it’ll fade away just like some of the “Twitter replacement” platforms have.