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Anecdotal, but reddit is REALLY cracking down on users regarding the protests related to the US/North America tariffs. There is a very murky line as to what reddit corporate wants people to say and not say regarding the protests people are organizing on corporate owned social media because sure.
Same with the inevitable pushback against blocking twitter.
That said: I sincerely doubt it will go anywhere. It took YEARS for people to leave twitter and that was only because a different corporate owned social media, bluesky, had open sign-ups. There is no alternative to reddit.
So we might see a small burst of newbies on lemmy. They'll likely get driven away by the usual suspects.
There's no alternative to Reddit? Wh... What am I using right now? Am I hallucinating?
Yes. This is all a fever dream!
Like I said. It took years for people to leave twitter and it was only because bluesky had open sign-ups.
They don't want the fediverse. They want giant corporate sites that make things "easy" and involve no thought.
So no, lemmy is not an alternative to the vast majority of reddit.
If it gets big on the media reddit admins might force things, but prob not. I have a buddy who mods one of the subs that banned twitter links and he said admins were backing mods there.
There was no alternative to digg... until reddit. Any big site can fall off.
Reddit was there before digg 2.0 I frequented both for a at least a few years. Im old so my memory is fragile but it feels like it was more than a year at least
reddit that early on had no subreddits, no comment section, and was creating ghost accounts to give the illusion of activity. By Digg v4 it was much more fleshed out.
Somewhat true depending on when you migrated i guess. The diggbar was when i left, and when v4 made the masses move there was already high signal to noise on reddit. That can not be said about this place.
Edit: when i made the move I moved to something different than digg. This is just poor mans reddit clone. This is not where the most insightful people are, and the up/downvotes are driven by how popular an idea/answer is rather than if it brings some insight to the table.
Just my thoughts though, and i still browse reddit with RES for memes.
Reddit is not your friend (or your friend's friend) and they are happy for a way to increase engagement up until they get told by the government that they need to let twitter back in.
Reddit Corporate is not going to fight for your rights.
And do you know why digg died more or less overnight? Because there was an alternative.
We don't have that alternative. So... that is why I referenced twitter which was a 2020s problem event rather than digg which was late 2000s.
What is the fed going to tell them, specifically? Now if Elon talks to spez and whispers sweet nothings in his ears as billionaire to billionaire glazer, I could see something happening there, but from the government itself? No chance.
It died because there was an alternative AND digg shit the bed with v4. If just being a alternative was enough we'd be on voat or tildes right now, which came well before Lemmy.
Voat went to hell when FPH, punchable faces, and similar subs were banned under I think Ellen Pao, and it turned into a toxic hateful shit show really quickly.
Instantly. And it wasn't, like, great before that.
Punchable faces never got banned, it got took over by shitposters though lol
Voat! HAHAhahahahahahaha . . . ahhhhhhh fuck. Too funny.
musk IS "the fed" at this point. Pay attention
Yes. it is almost like we need both. And there is still no alternative.
And FEDERALLY he has no leg to stand on. Are you intentionally missing my point here? He wouldn't be asking FEDERALLY. He would be asking PERSONALLY, because Spez glazes him. The FED has no rule of law they can use to force a site to link to another.
They say in the comment section of a post on a alternative. C'mon, you're just being contrarian at this point.
Tell that to USAID or all the other orgs he is gutting.
Again, lemmy is not an option any more than mastodon was an option for twitter. For many reasons, people only want to go to large "simple" corporate owned websites.
Maybe you should actually educate yourself on a topic before you comment on it, hmm?
Do they? Well, they're morons then. I prefer a user base that can navigate the dangerous world of an unfamiliar interface.
Honestly? Same
But that is why lemmy and mastodon aren't alternatives. it sucks but... yeah.
Okay, you're just trolling at this point if you think reddit is a government agency somehow. Not even gonna bother further with you. Blocked.
Just in the interest of anyone who thinks this person had even the slightest argument:
To summarize. musk is not the de jure "fed". he is very demonstrably de facto. But hey, apparently reddit loves everyone enough that they are going to fight a federal government that has made it clear they don't give a shit about any actual laws or constitutionality.
Oy
The fact that this is being said in earnest... Fedi4life