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I remember when people left Digg for Reddit. You need two things for an exodus: a push <Tick Emoji here> AND a viable alternative <Question mark Emoji here

• atourgates 3y ago
  This is the big difference. At the time I left Digg for Reddit, Reddit already had a strong community that offered me better content and discussion than Digg. As far as I can tell, with the exception of perhaps Discord, the alternatives being proposed to Reddit are asking users to _build_ their community on an alternative platform, not join an existing strong community. That seems like a bar too high at the moment, though I hope I’m wrong. That said, I expect it’ll take time. Reddit’s C-Suite have lost the plot, and lost sight of the value of their service and their relationship with their community. I don’t expect them to be supplanted in the next week or two, but I’d be shocked if they were still around at anything like Reddit’s current size and active userbase in a year or two.
  • bombcar 3y ago
    There have already been multiple Reddit "splinter sites" created (usually when a subreddit got banned) with more or less success. If a few big good subs do the same, it could start an avalanche. By "good" I mean subs that have actual substantive content, not just people looking at lefunnypost.
• rchaud 3y ago
  In 2010, it was Reddit that was the question mark. People that left Digg could have gone to Slashdot, Something Awful, Twitter, Fark, Cracked forums or topic-specific phpBB boards (there were many).