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?

  • gk99@kbin.social
    5·
    2 years ago

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

    It’s the first one where average users were affected beyond the blackout, though. Other than the alt-righters nobody wanted there and weren’t going to follow when they left. Patriots.win isn’t a real community either, it’s just constant Trump, Biden, and “democrats bad” content.

    • Biscuit@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      It’s the first one where average users were affected beyond the blackout, though.

      I think this makes the very big assumption that the average user uses third party apps. All of the polls on reddit, that I saw, suggested this is not true. For example.

      Was there a wider poll that showed non-negligible third party usage?

      • Joe@kbin.social
        1·
        2 years ago

        The blackouts showed that the majority of people actually contributing to the site use third party apps