Probably because reddit is so established, and there's already a large community on the website
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The average redditor couldn't care less about what is going on.
Look at the twitter. Whatever they can do people stay there. Maybe the hardcore users or geeks will leave, but the crowd will stay.
After Elon and Rogen harassed a covid scientist today with a follower doxing and going to the scientist’s house, I’m not sure how long twitter has left. That lawsuit is going to bury shit fast.
Fucking Joe Rogen man. I keep trying to give him the benefit of the doubt. He seems like the sort of person who believes what the last person told him until someone tells him the opposite. But now it seems like he's becoming actually malicious.
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People didn't switch from Twitter to Mastodon because Twitter was still working. You could still post your content, you still had all your followers there.
Reddit, on the other hand, went "dark". Millions of users couldn't use their favorite subreddits. And through word of mouth, many of us found the fediverse alternatives Lemmy and Kbin. But sadly (and also understandably, because they put a ton of work into them), many mods didn't link to these alternatives, in the hopes that Spez would change his mind. In a way, this is the reason why Lemmy and Kbin are not growing even faster.
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There are about 5 years of my life on there, for some users 15+. Now, if you dropped your laptop with 15 years worth of memories on it, you damn sure would have hope you could still save the data, even if it's obviously done for.
I tried to use Reddit for a couple days ‘after’ the blackout, but finally just deleted it and came here. The subreddits protesting content-wise was really effective—it’s just not enjoyable to use anymore and (hopefully, I guess) only getting worse.
I also still have hope for Twitter (less tho). Both concepts are good, they're just run by fucking idiots making them unusable.
Other than that there are fewer people on it, what makes Mastodon less appealing? (I never really got into twitter so I'm not sure what the draw was there either). Curious to hear your thoughts as to why there still is hope for twitter?
Twitter just needs a year or two to go back to the way it was. It was the way it was because it was the best way to attract investors and advertisers which it the only way it can make money. And by the way it was I mean it was a hell site then to but not openly facist.
I think "hope" is a tricky word for it. A lot of people don't really care about the issues and a lot of people who use it sparingly for a quick "haha" won't really be affected (at least not yet). So those people may not really hope for more.
I still use reddit for my niche gaming communities and while the possibility of making federated alternatives for those communities exists, it's far simpler to stay.