Here (kbin), Lemmy, Tildes… I hear Mastodon had a user spike. Is there something obvious I’m missing?
I ask because I haven’t felt the same mass of users that Reddit had. Obviously users have spread out, servers have been hammered, UIs have a learning curve and so on… But there might be other alternatives I haven’t looked at that are worth that look.
My friend told me lots of redditors have migrated to Tumblr. She’s constantly on tumblr, so I tend to believe her.
So far I’m between Kbin, Tildes, Squabbles, Fark and Something Awful forums.
I’d like an invite to Tildes as they’re pretty cool over there, plus that UI is so calming.
(Thank you for the invite!)
I’m really enjoying kbin and Lemmy. I’m really keen on giving Tildes a go but have been unable to get an invite. I’ve emailed the Tildes team but I’m guessing they’re probably pretty busy these days!
It won’t happen over night. As the quality of reddit declines, more people will give Kbin and Lemmy a shot.
A lot of power users are leaving reddit and that’s where the quality was.
I mean reddit quality was already in freefall outside of smallish subs. It’s gonna get worse quickly if those people actually leave.
Apart from a few sports subs, and they are a whole other mess of non-typical reddit demographics, I was actually mostly participating in more niche communities (and Star Wars, lol). I long ago unsubbed to most of the big standard ones, which has been a double-edged sword during the blackout. I don’t have a huge gap in where I was getting news and giggles, but most of what I did want to read on Reddit was coming from smaller, often not tech-related, communities that are not going to coalesce quickly. One topic and 5 comments a day on college football is not going to scratch that itch, even in the offseason, and I don’t know when we will actually have a way to bring 19,000 fans of country-adjacent rock/folk/etc. music together in one place.
Most are probably still on reddit.
This, unfortunately, is true.
I checked a single thread in /r/technology this morning from the Narwhal app and folks there are in full apathy mode. “it was never going to do anything”, “It actually helped reddit by making other subs discoverable”, etc.
It’s frustrating to see the level of distaste I have as a 15 year user of reddit and the 3rd party apps they’ve supported doesn’t seem to remotely be reciprocated by that crowd.
And even on the subreddit discords I’m a part of, none of them seemed to be talking about alternatives or have any enthusiasm for such discussion.
why does it seem like people are much more hesitant to migrate websites than they were in the past?
especially for a website like reddit it’s not like most people use it to interact with their friends or anybody who they might deem important.
afterall reddit became popular after digg’s collapse but that’s not even the only example of this
My guess is that it’s younger/newer/more causal internet users who don’t remember the days when the internet wasn’t just, like, 5 websites. I wouldn’t be surprised if the audience on kbin/lemmy skews older since that would be the cohort that was used to forums and an early web that was more shifting and moving, and would be more comfortable packing up and going to another site. Linus Tech Tips made the great point that there’s been a shocking period of stability on the internet with Twitter and Reddit as institutions, but that maybe that time is coming to a close.