As Reddit melts down, users are fleeing to lemmy, kbin, tildes and more.

  • 640kb@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    The irony is that reddit is creating its own competition - when before there was nothing.

    Back tracking a few years when digg began to self-destruct, reddit was, in fact, a viable competitor.

    Reddit never had a competitor until reddit itself, through the sheer incompetence of its gaslighting CEO, forced the creation of multiple (now) viable competitors.

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      1 year ago

      yes and no: lemmy released in 2019, so let’s not sell the fediverse short! people decided that a federated forum-like platform should exist irrespective of reddit’s current implosion!

      i think it’s important to acknowledge that these platforms exist not only because of reddit’s incompetence: they have value regardless (ie, even if reddit does a 180 ;) )!

      *edit: of course you’re totally right that reddit has helped to make the platforms viable competition with their exodus

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      1 year ago

      Reddit never had a competitor until reddit itself

      4chan is a competitor, a shitty alternative, but still a competitor