I’ve heard Reddit is setting themselves up for another major fumble and that it relates to how much Spez is a fanboy of Elon Musk.
I can’t find any details on the drama playing out though. Can someone explain the details of what’s going on?
I would love to see Lemmy grow with another big “Rexxit” event, but I’m not seeing anything happening to cause one.
Anecdotal, but reddit is REALLY cracking down on users regarding the protests related to the US/North America tariffs. There is a very murky line as to what reddit corporate wants people to say and not say regarding the protests people are organizing on corporate owned social media because sure.
Same with the inevitable pushback against blocking twitter.
That said: I sincerely doubt it will go anywhere. It took YEARS for people to leave twitter and that was only because a different corporate owned social media, bluesky, had open sign-ups. There is no alternative to reddit.
So we might see a small burst of newbies on lemmy. They’ll likely get driven away by the usual suspects.
There’s no alternative to Reddit? Wh… What am I using right now? Am I hallucinating?
Like I said. It took years for people to leave twitter and it was only because bluesky had open sign-ups.
They don’t want the fediverse. They want giant corporate sites that make things “easy” and involve no thought.
So no, lemmy is not an alternative to the vast majority of reddit.
Disclosure: I literally just moved here from Reddit.
I only got started on Reddit a few months ago, personally I’m moving here because the US has now clearly exited the world’s democratic camp, so I want to derisk/decouple from US services and products.
Learning now that Reddit management is supportive of the autocrats taking over the US only confirms my choice to GTFO of there.
I was on Maatodon never twitter.
I used Reddit for a time but left long aho, found Lemny about 12 mths ago. I think it’s awesone.
My gripe is with commercialisation of the intrenet, I’m of an age (old) that it offered the promise of a chocolate cake and delivered us a turd burger. Much of the reason for that is lock in on commerilsed scum baggery. I don’t blame the shit balls like Musk, Spez or Zuck for that (if it wasnt them it would be sone other shit stain) , I blame the 80% of users for normalising it all.
Susan Sontag was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10% of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that 10% is merciful, no matter what, and that the remaining 80% could be moved in either direction” —Kurt Vonnegut
I think there won’t be any kind of gigantic wave of users swapping over to the Fediverse. Rather small groups of people gradually become more and more frustrated with reddit.
If you look at twitter, people love to cry about the platform they are on. It took a lot for them to finally leave it and even then many didn’t burn their bridges. Consequences are somehow anathema to some people.
Before anyone is mass migrating here there will be rather another centralised commercial site popping up. Just like with Bluesky instead of Mastodon when people got finally fed up with Xitter.
Fediverse and its applications are too niche for that. Personally, who cares, we do have a decent amount of people here already. Plus we have our own drama too. I am not sure this place would change for the better with the masses coming over from Reddit.
