I like the overhaul. It is a huge improvement, but I still think the 3rd party offerings are better in the user experience part for now.
Because RIF and Apollo were hugely popular.
Reddit wants to give you the faint idea that you have a choice instead of actually having a choice.
A cornered animal who sees 1 way out isn't as unpredictable than a fully cornered one.
Reddit is almost 20 years old now?
Do you expect Lemmy and Kbin to be an immediate replacement or an replacement at all?
People are way to shortsighted to see how it can affect them as well.
The amount of "I don't use 3rd party apps so it doesn't affect me" comments were very noticable.
These changes and the ones that Reddit will implement to rail the userbase even harder will affect the people one way or the other at some point.
The more people who will get on the platform the easier it will be to shut the intolerant and bullshitters out.
Why would I buy a console if I cannot have a disc to play my game from?
The shit that game companies have been pulling since the ps3 era have been insane.
I remember the SSX game on PS3 that had no option to play normal co op but only online (as far as i remember) and I knew what was gonna come.
You have to be online for everything, everything gets "patched" and paying 80 euros + for a game doesn't mean that it has "outstanding" quality.
Miss me with that shit.
This reminds me of the last week tonight episode with edward snowden.
It was about privacy and the people interviewed didn't care until the question was phrased if it were dickpics the government had access to.
The interview with snowden starts around 14:00
and the fragment about the dickpics around 25:00.
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.
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