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Reddit is really not that special under the hood. Given the opportunity it can be replaced. It just suffers from people moving issue most social networks suffer
by wraptile 6y ago
Reddit is really not that special under the hood. Given the opportunity it can be replaced. It just suffers from people moving issue most social networks suffer.
A decentralized alternative Lemmy[1] is already quite feature complete and in many ways even better than reddit itself. It's just a bit of a ghost town and many of the instances are aimed towards and/or controlled by political/social rejects.
- markdown 6y agoIt just suffers from people moving issue most social networks suffer. "just"? Reddit is the community, not code. Users aren't going to run off to Lemmy or any other site. It just isn't going to happen.
- Kbelicius 6y agoAre you saying that Digg wasn't a community?
- RichEO 6y agoThe community came VERY close to jumping ship when a beloved low (mid?) level employee was terminated back in 2015.
- markdown 6y agoBut they didn't because there wasn't an alternative, as there isn't now. The alternative site (and it has to be one site, nor multiple, topic-specific sites) has to either already be massively active when the triggering event occurs.