> HN users look at the Apollo dev and see themselves, so they're jumping on this out of solidarity. Your strawman is just that. You can't comprehend that not

> HN users look at the Apollo dev and see themselves, so they're jumping on this out of solidarity. Your strawman is just that. You can't comprehend that not everyone is as casual like you and will happily take whatever they get like a good boy because, "you don't really care". Some people do contribute and care and are a significant part, on aggregate, of what makes reddit special. Your expectations about "reddit will win because it holds all the cards" are pretty obvious to make. You're not some Nostradamus, when there's no clear reddit alternative like last time around but it's still too early to tell if the users who are intended to be driven to the main app will actually go there instead of empowering other places and causing a slow but eventual migration. Internet is, many times, about power users and "what's cool" driving others there. Reddit is not Google or fb in that they can simply buy the competition when it appears. But hey, there's always someone with an "the authorities are always right and will win" mindset.