While it ensures it continues in some form, it may also be the reason it never really reaches mainstream popularity. Which has it's pros and cons, but ultimately more cons than pros for content aggregators. The more people contributing the better (so long as they're not bots). Not only does it bring in more variety, but higher numbers mean cream will more easily float to the top and dregs will more easily be pushed down.
WhiteTiger
Wait, what does the name Lemmy mean?
Yep, worst case some big lemmy communities go bust, but then people can readily just go to other instances.
They were down for me too, I'm assuming it was because they both updated to the new version.
Voat was about 50% fatpeoplehate, 35% T_D, and 15% 'free speech' enthusiasts. The 15% were quickly pushed out by the overwhelming amount of content generated by fatpeoplehate, but eventually they got tired of posting the same things over and over and only T_D was left.
I'm criticizing the logic, not the site
The delivery person thought the very AUDACITY to ask them why they're there was racist. It happens all the time.
"Hi, can I help you"
"What, you don't think I belong here? It's because I'm black, isn't it you RACIST!"
It's super pretty and easy to use compared to kbin/lemmy and I think that alone is going to get it a lot of traffic. Which is great, anything to make it easier for users to leave reddit.
Unfortunately it's pretty much only cat posts and calls to make sure nobody that's not part of the reddit hivemind is allowed to exist there.
The customer is always right, ~~except~~ in matters of taste
You got the quote exactly backwards
I mean, of all sites, polls make the most sense to require cookies to avoid duplicate votes.
MOST current internet users didn't grow up in the days of forums.
There was an influx from Twitter, but last I saw most of them returned to twitter and it's back to just barely above where it was before the twitter exodus. Federated sites are just too unappealing visually, in lack of content, and in difficulty to use.