Hey all. A bunch of seemingly ex Superstonkers or something have descended on Lemmy. I’ve held GME and Superstonk on Lemmy World since the Reddit APIocalypse five months ago.

Who are you guys and why is there a sudden influx? I was wondering when you’d show up and why it never happened in July (I was the only one).

Thanks and DRS your shit!

  • passthesaltplease@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I also hold GME and lurked in Superstonk. Some time ago I had read Ryan Cohen bought a lot of BBBY stock. So I bought some too and loosely followed that subreddit. August 2022 RC supposedly “sold” his BBBY position. I can’t say I had any foresight into what the bigger picture was but I believed RC was still involved, besides if I sold my bbby I would have lost money. So I held and bought more. In the spring a fella named PPSeeds started a YouTube channel and subreddit (not sure of dates) where you can get together and shoot the shit, perhaps talking about your favorite stock in a non financial advice way… For me, we flash forward to post July when my third party Reddit app stopped working. I tried Lemmy but ultimately went back to the stock Reddit app. I was getting all sorts of weird subreddit recommendations, things I’ve never seen before (sidenote I now know what “Snoots and Boots” refers to, lol). One interesting subreddit recommendation the native app offered was ThePPShow. I found where a lot of the OG apes had migrated to and it became my go-to place. Yesterday ThePPshow subreddit was shut down without explanation from the Reddit mods and we scattered to X communities and @hey_ross was smart and quick enough to snag us a a Lemmy community. I hope we gain a good foothold here as it seems like a stable platform where future DD posts can’t be removed.