Still no mention of Lemmy or Kbin
It’s so weird. User’s will complain like hell, but never actually stop being users.
How is “competition” supposed to work if you’re not willing to to switch to a “competitor”? There’s no competition forcing a company to improve if you just really sternly tell them off, then continue being a customer regardless.
Because redditors aren’t the customers but the product. What reddit is selling to its advertisers are people that do exactly what you said. Complain but not change.
Gradually, then suddenly.
Most users don’t make principled stands that easily. People are still on Twitter.
They’ll jump ship eventually, as the services will inevitably continue their downward spiral. As far as I’m concerned they can take their sweet time. I’d much prefer seeing the fediverse grow gradually along with its own culture rather than having a sudden influx of users act as if it’s an exact substitute for the place they are leaving behind.
It doesn’t help if the journalists don’t mention the Fediverse as an alternative. People will move to Discord, Facebook, Threads, or Instagram because they aren’t aware. 3 out of those 4 are owned by Meta.
Considering how quickly lemmy grew. I don’t think it’s fair to say people never leave. Clearly a lot of people did. Just not enough unfortunately.
Lemmy currently has 0.2% the active usercount of reddit. While I too share your optimism, realistically, no real change has yet occurred. But, hopefully this is enough to spark things off. It’s already leading to far, far greater activity in the lemmy app dev space.
Just like every article about Twitter dying will mention BlueSky, Threads, etc but not Mastodon.
Very glad I switched to lemmy.
Today is my first day using Lemmy with Jerboa, and I’m seeing enough quality and volume to stay.
I’ve been using Connect until the boost app comes out and it’s not bad! I will also say I actually enjoy using the desktop site as well, better than reddit in so many ways.
It’s nice to have the options. Now I’m trying Summit because of the Mark read on scroll and it also seems good enough.
They didn’t even mention the r/save3rdpartyapps banner having the r/blind logo and tag - it’s part of the banner, along with many 3rd party app logos.
Sorry, but where is the mess? Sounds like lots of people are still actively engaged with Reddit. That’s sounds good for any investors of Reddit for sure…
Sorry, but where is the mess?
Reddit brought back r/place so Redditors could have somewhere to vent their anger rather than making subreddits private or other forms of protest. R/place is a distraction and the majority of Redditors fell for it.
