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So what corners have redditors gathered to during the blackout? (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Here (kbin), Lemmy, Tildes... I hear Mastodon had a user spike. Is there something obvious I'm missing?

I ask because I haven't felt the same mass of users that Reddit had. Obviously users have spread out, servers have been hammered, UIs have a learning curve and so on... But there might be other alternatives I haven't looked at that are worth that look.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It won't happen over night. As the quality of reddit declines, more people will give Kbin and Lemmy a shot.
A lot of power users are leaving reddit and that's where the quality was.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean reddit quality was already in freefall outside of smallish subs. It's gonna get worse quickly if those people actually leave.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Apart from a few sports subs, and they are a whole other mess of non-typical reddit demographics, I was actually mostly participating in more niche communities (and Star Wars, lol). I long ago unsubbed to most of the big standard ones, which has been a double-edged sword during the blackout. I don't have a huge gap in where I was getting news and giggles, but most of what I did want to read on Reddit was coming from smaller, often not tech-related, communities that are not going to coalesce quickly. One topic and 5 comments a day on college football is not going to scratch that itch, even in the offseason, and I don't know when we will actually have a way to bring 19,000 fans of country-adjacent rock/folk/etc. music together in one place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I was the same and it's kinda sad to see people are making carbon copies of the big reddit subs here with predictable comments.