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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023
  • Biscuit@kbin.socialtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is Lemmy more likely to succeed than Voat? Why or why not?
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    2 years ago

    I think most of the answers to your questions can be answered by the question that this comment section is responding to, to understand the framing that I’m commenting in:

    What’s different about this time and with Lemmy to make it a feasible alternative to Reddit? Is it random chance?

    But, this is the first and last Reddit related thread that I plan on participating in, so I’ll be cheering with you, if we ever get the miracle of reddit evaporating. Although, I would be worried where they would all end up.

  • Biscuit@kbin.socialtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is Lemmy more likely to succeed than Voat? Why or why not?
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    2 years ago

    but all the edits made me reconsider
    not worry about how many people up/down-ticked our comment.

    The first was an afterthought that I wanted to include. The second was because I realized my time trying Voat was close to the hate subs that the majority of the comments here are about. Neither were about up/down, I was just trying to be polite by making the additions clear, since there’s no indicator in my UI.

    The last one was a lighthearted joke. I thought the last few sentences of it, and the first few, and the middle ones, would make that clear. With an empty /m/funny and /m/jokes, and a /m/memes full of constipation, I’m beginning to suspect my humor may not be well align here.

    But, I do think it’s silly that given an opinion about my experience, on a question requesting an opinion about that event, results in downvotes. I guess I don’t get the point of this place.

  • Biscuit@kbin.socialtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is Lemmy more likely to succeed than Voat? Why or why not?
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    2 years ago

    your ridiculous all or nothing speculation

    How is it ridiculous? It’s my 2 cent opinion, lightly founded in observation of when this happened several times in the past, with reddit and several other platforms, to a question in a forum about questions, that requires speculation about the future.

    There’s not a correct or incorrect answer here, just a bunch of idiots guessing. Feel free to influence the future with downvotes though. I’ll continue enjoying reading what people have to say.

  • Biscuit@kbin.socialtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is Lemmy more likely to succeed than Voat? Why or why not?
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    2 years ago

    Taking away popular apps to a social network that doesn’t have any yet? What? Most users won’t see that as a positive, in the medium term.

    We would have to see the user stats related to reddit app usage, to talk in an informed way about this, along with the assumption that reddit doesn’t improve their app, which will probably be forced onto spez (assuming he isn’t kicked out as an atonement/scape goat).

    edit: Here’s a quick litmus test. How many times have you gone to reddit today?

  • Biscuit@kbin.socialtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is Lemmy more likely to succeed than Voat? Why or why not?
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    2 years ago

    I don’t know, I was there in the beginning. I think it died because it had no real content, compared to reddit. And, all anyone talked about was reddit, or reposted stuff from reddit, just like we’re seeing here. I think this might stick a bit better because reddit is way bigger than it was back then, so even if the same super small % of users came over, it would still be quite a bit more content.

    For comparison of how negligible all the Lemmy fediverse is, there are ~40k active users this month. Reddit has over 50 million active users. So, that’s around 0.1% of reddit users. Literally 99.9% of reddit are not here.

    I think it’s probably doomed. It’ll never overtake reddit. But, it’ll be a nice, quiet, alternative.

    edit: Here’s a quick litmus test for all the downvoters. How many times have you gone to reddit today?

    edit: I was part of this attempted migration, not the hate one. This isn’t the first blackout for reddit being shitty.

  • Biscuit@kbin.socialtoMemes@lemmy.ml•Crystal Clear Sound
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    2 years ago

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