I’ve seen many comments and posts regarding the API fiasco on Reddit, with the claim that there will be a huge influx of users when that happens. I’m all for it, but I find it hard to believe that the average or even above average user will make the effort to switch.
No. There are good things to look at on Reddit, and effectively nothing around here. This place is incredibly barren and will continue to be unless creative people show up to populate it… which they won’t when it’s a nightmare just to get an upvote to stick,
I think the issue is more on lack of innovation. People ditched Skype for discord because Discord had many more features and wasn’t an unusable mess like Skype was in the mid 2010s. Lemmy is literally just reddit with a few more features.
What do you mean by a nightmare just to get an upvote to stick?
I’m on PC and my upvotes…well…don’t always stick too. I have the hide-read posts option on and love upvoting to remove stuff i’ve looked at. But upon going back to the main page by clicking the logo. I have to upvote again, then refresh again for it to vanish. Weird.
Maybe they mean specific to Kbin where currently only boosts raise your score (and most people will boost rarely) so it’s a lot easier to lose score (even from 1 reduce on a favored comment, 1000 papercuts).
I mean one of the main functions of Reddit is link aggregation. People can literally just copy links from Reddit and paste them here. It’s not really a creativity problem yet.