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How so? Nobody could post when the mods disabled the subs.

I think most of the answers to your questions can be answered by the question that this comment section is responding to, to understand the framing that I'm commenting in:

What's different about this time and with Lemmy to make it a feasible alternative to Reddit? Is it random chance?

But, this is the first and last Reddit related thread that I plan on participating in, so I'll be cheering with you, if we ever get the miracle of reddit evaporating. Although, I would be worried where they would all end up.

There was a time when messages didn't have scores. ;)

I like the idea of the score modifying placement in the comment tree, but not being visible. I also like the idea of a more expressive score (maybe normalized), I suppose like the emoji systems do, to indicate funny, angry, etc, rather than some silly binary.

It's the first one where average users were affected beyond the blackout, though.

I think this makes the very big assumption that the average user uses third party apps. All of the polls on reddit, that I saw, suggested this is not true. For example. If that's true, then the average Redditor is only being inconvenienced by the blackout and related shenanigans.

Was there a wider poll that showed non-negligible third party usage?

but all the edits made me reconsider
not worry about how many people up/down-ticked our comment.

The first was an afterthought that I wanted to include, and the score was negative by the time I added it, so I added some humor. The second was because I realized my time trying Voat was close to the hate subs that the majority of the comments here are about. Neither were (originally) about up/down, I was just trying to be polite by making the additions clear, since there's no indicator in my UI.

The last one was a lighthearted joke. I thought the last few sentences of it, and the first few, and the middle ones, would make that clear. With an empty /m/funny and /m/jokes, and a /m/memes full of constipation, I'm beginning to suspect my humor may not be well align here.

But, I do think it's silly that given an opinion about my experience, on a question requesting an opinion about that event, results in downvotes. I guess I don't get the point of this place. If we're supposed to ignore karma, and what the larger community thinks of a comment, the score (and authors!) probably shouldn't be placed at such a predominant position with such a large size, suggesting importance or worth (I'm on kbin UI).

your ridiculous all or nothing speculation

How is it ridiculous? It's my 2 cent opinion, lightly founded in observation of when this happened several times in the past, with reddit and several other platforms, to a question in a forum about questions, that requires speculation about the future. Social media networks are generally all or nothing, because people flock to content, and content is generated by people, so people literally attract people until most everyone is in one spot.

There's not a correct or incorrect answer here, just a bunch of idiots guessing. Feel free to influence the future with downvotes though. I'll continue enjoying reading what people have to say.

What, no they're ⅂, ᒋ, Z, S, I, T, and O.

I'm seeing red whistles and hearing dog flags coming from you! Am I doing it right?

Ok, now let's ask the 99.9% of Redditors that aren't here. You take the left 25,000,000, I'll take the right, meet back in 5. Go!

edit: Oh man, I'm out of breath. We might need help. How about every single lemmy user helps us! That's only about 1,300 people we each have to ask! Well, 1,299 for me. At 4 seconds each, that's should only be about 1.5 hours. See you all soon!

Taking away popular apps to a social network that doesn't have any yet? What? Most users won't see that as a positive.

We would have to see the user stats related to reddit app usage, to talk in an informed way about this, along with the assumption that reddit doesn't improve their app, which will probably be forced onto spez (assuming he isn't kicked out as an atonement/scape goat).

edit: Here's a quick litmus test. How many times have you gone to reddit today?

I don't know, I was there in the beginning. I think it died because it had no real content, compared to reddit. And, all anyone talked about was reddit, or reposted stuff from reddit, just like we're seeing here. I think this might stick a bit better because reddit is way bigger than it was back then, so even if the same super small % of users came over, it would still be quite a bit more content.

For comparison of how negligible all the Lemmy fediverse is, there are ~40k active users this month. Reddit has over 50 million active users. So, that's around 0.1% of reddit users. Literally 99.9% of reddit are not here.

I think it's probably doomed. It'll never overtake reddit. But, it'll be a nice, quiet, alternative.

edit: Here's a quick litmus test for all the downvoters (I guess "correct" answers only here!). How many times have you gone to reddit today?

edit: I was part of this attempted migration, not the hate one. This isn't the first blackout for reddit being shitty.

edit: I humbly apologize for my personal, speculative, opinion about the unknowable future. The downvotes have made me realize my math was wrong, my opinion is wrong, and I am wrong. My corrected opinion is that Lemmy will overtake Meta, Mastadon, Twitter, and Google (wtf is reddit!?), and every upvote will be worth $1000, making everyone rich! Or, we can have fun guessing, and wait and see how things go. I hope they go well!

See for their response: https://lemmy.ml/comment/909446

The Agora: https://sh.itjust.works/c/agora

Seems like a good way to test the concept of the Agora. Reading some comments here and elsewhere, many people appear to not be interested in democracy, and would rather have swift action from a leading group/person. I suspect this gives a hint at the fragmentation of the Fediverse, to come, where the tolerance of a single users action results in defederation. As instances grows to tens of thousands, I imagine the hunt for these people will become intense, with policing groups made to squash the wrongthink, in order to protect the federation.