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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I think the fundamental thing for alternatives to succeed is that they can't primarily exist as outlets for us to complain about reddit. Certainly there's going to be a lot of that given that reddit's actions sparked a partially-reluctant exodus, but the best revenge is living well and all that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's still early days, and kbin and Lemmy are experiencing a massive influx of Reddit users.

I would compare it to Mastodon just after Elon Musk took over Twitter. Giant influx, and for a few weeks it was full of people talking about Twitter. But then they got that out of their system and started talking about other stuff, and now Twitter only comes up if Musk does something really, really, really stupid.

I expect Lemmy and kbin will follow a similar trajectory. There will be a period when it's all Reddit sucking all the time, but people will soon enough start using them to share news and links.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

now Twitter only comes up if Musk does something really, really, really stupid.

So... any day that ends in 'y'?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Really really really stupid as judged by the "musk stupidity index," not just really really really stupid for a normal person.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Most reddit topics were about Digg in the days following the Digg exodus. Over time, discussion shifts naturally.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The crunch will come after June 30th. We'll see how many people really ditch Reddit once third party apps stop working.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Do you think if the mobile Reddit apps stop working (the ones that are miles better than the official Reddit app), mobile users are going to flock to kbin/lemmy? Are there any good mobile apps? All the ones I could find are extremely alpha/beta quality.

[โ€“] w2tpmf 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Reading this right now from Jerboa. I like it so far. It's no RiF, but it's better than reddit's ugly app.

[โ€“] bloodsangre7 1 points 2 years ago

I'm on it too, feels like an alpha RIF, but it's clean looking, relatively stable, and easy to use

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm not sure about lemmy since I'm primarily a kbin user, but the mobile website is already really good to begin with. I just use Hermit to make it even more "app-like" with features like full screen and frameless. I even did the same to the websites of some of my other apps.