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?

    • aeternum
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      151 year ago

      How many times have you gone to reddit today?

      None.

        • BlackCoffee
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          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.

            • BlackCoffee
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              It is Random chance.

              I have read your comments;

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

              No one knows if it is doomed.

              You have to start somewhere but you can’t expect a platform that has seen an huge influx of users the past weeks to immediately operate on the scale of what Reddit does.

              “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!”

              Who is claiming the above?

              The fun thing is that Mastodon is in your list and before the fuckery with Twitter it didn’t really have traction.

              Why can’t lemmy/Kbin be the same in a year from now?

              The problem for Reddit, is that it made people actually look for alternatives. It is stupid for a competitor to make it’s customers aware of the competition, but Reddit did exactly that.

              Maybe it flops, maybe it stays “niche”, maybe it explodes in popularity.

              I think it is indeed random chance and just being at the right place at the right time.

        • GunnarRunnar
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          31 year ago

          What are you on about? Yeah obviously people still visit Reddit, it was stupid of you to ask in the first place. I thought this kind of idiocy would’ve stayed at Reddit.