Biscuit

Well, there's always whitespace!

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 of less that 1k people, that requires speculation about the future.

Are you going to downvote all of the people saying it will succeed? Wtf? What is the correct answer to this question? And who's allowed to give it? There's not a correct or incorrect answer here, just a bunch of idiots guessing. If you don't understand that everyones opinion for this answer is fairly worthless here, then you're emotional and/or tribalistic. Feel free to influence the future with downvotes though. I'll continue enjoying reading what people have to say.

What, no they're ⅂, ᒋ, Z, S, I, T, and O.

I consider myself a time traveler. I'm in the future, in the year 2023, where we "email" and "calling" is just how spammer sand scammers communicate.

What if I aim low? Like, "please include the letter c in your next commit"? Will that hit hard enough? Or should I go for a whole word? Come on, I need this!

And, they'll all still be wrong!

I have a few ideas on how to clog my bowels. I really can't wait to contribute!!!

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!

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, along with the assumption that reddit doesn't improve their app, which will probably be forced onto spez.

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

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