Here (kbin), Lemmy, Tildes… I hear Mastodon had a user spike. Is there something obvious I’m missing?
I ask because I haven’t felt the same mass of users that Reddit had. Obviously users have spread out, servers have been hammered, UIs have a learning curve and so on… But there might be other alternatives I haven’t looked at that are worth that look.
This, unfortunately, is true.
I checked a single thread in /r/technology this morning from the Narwhal app and folks there are in full apathy mode. “it was never going to do anything”, “It actually helped reddit by making other subs discoverable”, etc.
It’s frustrating to see the level of distaste I have as a 15 year user of reddit and the 3rd party apps they’ve supported doesn’t seem to remotely be reciprocated by that crowd.
And even on the subreddit discords I’m a part of, none of them seemed to be talking about alternatives or have any enthusiasm for such discussion.
why does it seem like people are much more hesitant to migrate websites than they were in the past?
especially for a website like reddit it’s not like most people use it to interact with their friends or anybody who they might deem important.
afterall reddit became popular after digg’s collapse but that’s not even the only example of this
My guess is that it’s younger/newer/more causal internet users who don’t remember the days when the internet wasn’t just, like, 5 websites. I wouldn’t be surprised if the audience on kbin/lemmy skews older since that would be the cohort that was used to forums and an early web that was more shifting and moving, and would be more comfortable packing up and going to another site. Linus Tech Tips made the great point that there’s been a shocking period of stability on the internet with Twitter and Reddit as institutions, but that maybe that time is coming to a close.