A senior Google VP said earlier this month that Google users who couldn’t add “Reddit” to their queries were “not quite happy” following the protest.
We’ve got a LONG way to go before any site gets as big as Reddit. I’m just hoping between the fediverse and/or squabbles one of those will “win” enough to get a critical mass of users. I’m actually very happy with both, there is just not even a fraction of content compared to reddit in an hour (understandably so).
To be fair, the point of the fediverse is that despite them being different platforms, they can all communicate with each other seamlessly. Mastodon users can see and comment on this thread for example without ever leaving Mastodon. They can even make their own posts on lemmy without leaving Mastodon. So it really isn’t necessary for a single platform to gain enough critical mass to overtake Reddit. Even on a singular platform it’s technically made up of many different individually hosted sites that we call instances. So even if lemmy were to have more users than Reddit one day, it’s an arbitrary place to draw the line. Why not claim that a single instance has to reach that critical mass instead?
