I don’t remember what caused the Voat’s origin, except it involved Reddit HQ. And then it went under in 2020.

What’s different about this time and with Lemmy to make it a feasible alternative to Reddit? Is it random chance?

  • Biscuit@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I don’t know, I was there in the beginning. I think it died because it had no real content, compared to reddit. And, all anyone talked about was reddit, or reposted stuff from reddit, just like we’re seeing here. I think this might stick a bit better because reddit is way bigger than it was back then, so even if the same super small % of users came over, it would still be quite a bit more content.

    For comparison of how negligible all the Lemmy fediverse is, there are ~40k active users this month. Reddit has over 50 million active users. So, that’s around 0.1% of reddit users. Literally 99.9% of reddit are not here.

    I think it’s probably doomed. It’ll never overtake reddit. But, it’ll be a nice, quiet, alternative.

    edit: Here’s a quick litmus test for all the downvoters (I guess “correct” answers only here!). How many times have you gone to reddit today?

    edit: I was part of this attempted migration, not the hate one. This isn’t the first blackout for reddit being shitty.

    edit: I humbly apologize for my personal, speculative, opinion about the unknowable future. The downvotes have made me realize my math was wrong, my opinion is wrong, and I am wrong. My corrected opinion is that Lemmy will overtake Meta, Mastadon, Twitter, and Google (wtf is reddit!?), and every upvote will be worth $1000, making everyone rich! Or, we can have fun guessing, and wait and see how things go. I hope they go well!

      • Biscuit@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        Taking away popular apps to a social network that doesn’t have any yet? What? Most users won’t see that as a positive.

        We would have to see the user stats related to reddit app usage, to talk in an informed way about this, along with the assumption that reddit doesn’t improve their app, which will probably be forced onto spez (assuming he isn’t kicked out as an atonement/scape goat).

        edit: Here’s a quick litmus test. How many times have you gone to reddit today?

          • Biscuit@kbin.social
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            1 year ago

            Ok, now let’s ask the 99.9% of Redditors that aren’t here. You take the left 25,000,000, I’ll take the right, meet back in 5. Go!

            edit: Oh man, I’m out of breath. We might need help. How about every single lemmy user helps us! That’s only about 1,300 people we each have to ask! Well, 1,299 for me. At 4 seconds each, that’s should only be about 1.5 hours. See you all soon!

            • BlackCoffee@kbin.social
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              1 year ago

              Should we care that other people still use reddit?

              Do you have to chose one or the other?

              Why are people so hell bent to “take over” Reddit?

              I found an alternative in Kbin and Lemmy that suits my needs and focuses on user experience and growing communities instead of growing the pockets of a handful of people.

              I decide to not use Reddit anymore because the upper echelon can go fuck themselves.

              Is it so weird to have a set of values and stop using a service/product, because they cross the boundaries one has set for themselves?

              I have used Reddit for more than a decade and I haven’t missed it all.

              I am here because I enjoy it and not because I have a deeper desire for Reddit to evaporate out of nowhere.