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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
@ilex @lynny @Bucket_of_Truth @aeternum @Biscuit
Because for some people its a black and white world.
They aren't interested in co existence. And i think that's a very very sad way to live life.
I won't waste my time and energy to engage them.
I think most of the answers to your questions can be answered by the question that this comment section is responding to, to understand the framing that I'm commenting in:
But, this is the first and last Reddit related thread that I plan on participating in, so I'll be cheering with you, if we ever get the miracle of reddit evaporating. Although, I would be worried where they would all end up.
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.