I don’t remember what caused the Voat’s origin, except it involved Reddit HQ. And then it went under in 2020.

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

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      Taking away popular apps to a social network that doesn’t have any yet? What?

      We would have to see the user stats related to reddit app usage, to talk in an informed way about this.

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

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          Ok, now let’s ask the 99.9% of Redditors that aren’t here. You take the left 25,000,000, I’ll take the right, meet back in 5. Go!

          edit: Oh man, I’m out of breath. We might need help. How about every single lemmy user helps us! That’s only about 1,300 people we each have to ask! Well, 1,299 for me. At 4 seconds each, that’s should only be about 1.5 hours. See you all soon!

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            Should we care that other people still use reddit?

            Do you have to chose one or the other?

            Why are people so hell bent to “take over” Reddit?

            I found an alternative in Kbin and Lemmy that suits my needs and focuses on user experience and growing communities instead of growing the pockets of a handful of people.

            I decide to not use Reddit anymore because the upper echelon can go fuck themselves.

            Is it so weird to have a set of values and stop using a service/product, because they cross the boundaries one has set for themselves?

            I have used Reddit for more than a decade and I haven’t missed it all.

            I am here because I enjoy it and not because I have a deeper desire for Reddit to evaporate out of nowhere.

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            What are you on about? Yeah obviously people still visit Reddit, it was stupid of you to ask in the first place. I thought this kind of idiocy would’ve stayed at Reddit.