I’ve heard Reddit is setting themselves up for another major fumble and that it relates to how much Spez is a fanboy of Elon Musk.
I can’t find any details on the drama playing out though. Can someone explain the details of what’s going on?
I would love to see Lemmy grow with another big “Rexxit” event, but I’m not seeing anything happening to cause one.
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.
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.
There’s no alternative to Reddit? Wh… What am I using right now? Am I hallucinating?
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.
I’m not that smart and Lemmy is pretty easy. The problem is it’s federated and I did have to hop servers once and most people really don’t want to bother with that added complexity.
But give it time. Mastodon was small for years and never grew quickly, but because it’s federated, it is not going away.