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As Reddit Crushes Protests, Its User Traffic Returns to Normal
(www.pcmag.com)
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this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2023
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A lot of sentiment seems to suggest that for Lemmy or the fediverse to succeed Reddit has to fail.
I don't get that opinion at all. Reddit had become overwhelming bloated. A popular thread would have thousands of comments. Most of which would be near identical. Only the most up voted would ever be read and typically they had to have been commented while the thread was new.
The internet is vast, there is plenty of room for multiple social media to exist.
If you dislike what reddit has become then ignore it. If you still wish to use it then you can do so side by side with using Lemmy.
Agreed. To me, Lemmy (or the fediverse for that matter) succeeded because it offered me an alternative to reddit. It doesn't need to become the #1 to be worth something.
Lemmy is #1 in my heart
I also feel like, if Reddit died and all the users jumped to Lemmy, Lemmy would die rather quickly as well.
Lemmy still has a long way to go.
Thousands of comments which the top ones contain the same types of canned, sarcastic answers as well.
The informative & constructive comments are generally way down at the bottom of the thread.
Yeah, I'd rather have a thread with a dozen high quality comments than hundreds of bot reposts/low quality buzzwords. I do hope that Lemmy sustains enough activity to have those nice, small conversations though.