It is Random chance.

I have read your comments;

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

No one knows if it is doomed.

You have to start somewhere but you can’t expect a platform that has seen an huge influx of users the past weeks to immediately operate on the scale of what Reddit does.

“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!”

Who is claiming the above?

The fun thing is that Mastodon is in your list and before the fuckery with Twitter it didn’t really have traction.

Why can’t lemmy/Kbin be the same in a year from now?

The problem for Reddit, is that it made people actually look for alternatives. It is stupid for a competitor to make it’s customers aware of the competition, but Reddit did exactly that.

Maybe it flops, maybe it stays “niche”, maybe it explodes in popularity.

I think it is indeed random chance and just being at the right place at the right time.

Should we care that other people still use reddit?

Do you have to chose one or the other?

Why are people so hell bent to “take over” Reddit?

I found an alternative in Kbin and Lemmy that suits my needs and focuses on user experience and growing communities instead of growing the pockets of a handful of people.

I decide to not use Reddit anymore because the upper echelon can go fuck themselves.

Is it so weird to have a set of values and stop using a service/product, because they cross the boundaries one has set for themselves?

I have used Reddit for more than a decade and I haven’t missed it all.

I am here because I enjoy it and not because I have a deeper desire for Reddit to evaporate out of nowhere.

I use(d) it to follow 1 guy for updates about my favorite sports team and transfers etc.

But he introduced a new site (today) and is actually gonna quit the platform to go to twitch or somewhere else, so i’ll say goodbye to another social media account after today.

Reaffirming of what?

That twitter is a walking corpse?

My timeline is full of bots, spam and trolls and it looks like it gets worse with the day.

If Spez likes that future for Reddit then sure.

“Meta and met with them after signing an NDA”

This should tell quite enough.

Yes. Rotating between Lemmy & Kbin.

Actually getting work done during the day also.

Reddit on Mobile is completely dead to me and I will only use it on my desktop for specific searches if the info is not available elsewhere (last resort).

0.1% of the time wil be spend on Reddit, with an ad blocker of course.

Why should it be ads?

There are so many different ways to have some form of monetization that is not intrusive.

Running Ads is not the only way to keep the lights on.

I registered and got through yes.

I registered just before the influx of users from reddit I assume and I am gonna be honest I didn’t put in a full essae.

I think Beehaw is a great instance who shows what the Fediverse can be and is about.

I love that they actually shout out 1 of the instances instead of Lemmy or Kbin as a whole.

The first 3 hits google gives me as of now ;)

https://lemmy.ml/c/formula1
https://lemmy.world/c/formula1
https://lemmy.eus/c/[email protected]

It is a money grab. Most of the time those 4 week diets are full of sugar and just badly balanced in macro nutrients overall.

It is also way easier to set up an healthy meal plan for yourself than people think ;).

This is the way, well done!

(If you still eat some meals ;))

The word here is indeed supplementing!

I like that I see the disclaimer about it being an addition and not an replacement more and more on the products that you can buy like protein shakes, protein bars and such.

They should be an addition to your meals/diet and not an replacement.

Of course there is no harm in replacing 1 meal a day for a shake or such if one feels like it but all meals is not gonna help in the long run and isn’t giving enough variety in your nutrition.

But indeed like you said, they are good as supplements!

I used “F1 lemmy” multiple times in google already and the top post(s) were links to the F1 lemmy.

It works.

Yes who is gonna post the first AskMen about;

“What is the sexiest sex you ever sexed?”

Edit;
For people interested in Fragrances, I did my part and gonna start to post more often;

https://kbin.social/m/Fragrance/t/44344/What-is-your-favorite-summer-fragrance-Or-do-you-have

Suggestions are welcome!

“I regularly get called a power-hungry mod by the crybabies who get angry when they aren’t allowed to break the very clearly stated rules, and repeat their offenses after getting first, sometimes second warnings. They run to other places and go try to stir up other crybabies to come and cause the same kind of trouble.”

Isn’t there something about this in the rules/code of conduct or something?

I’ve seen the vitrol that mods get called on the daily.

Why isn’t Reddit taking concrete action against this?

I see it as Reddits obligation to educate the community about moderators and what they do on the daily.

It is in their best interest to of course not do the above because otherwise moderators may actually feel like an important part of the eco system.

And Reddit would not like that.

“Do you think Reddit cares? Honestly.”

My post says what I think. Of course they don’t they haven’t cared for the better part of 8 years. It’s why I ran PDS and stopped with using Reddit as of this week.

“But there are people who need these little rest stops. They need a place to post a picture of their Mickey Mouse balloon, or their engagement photo in front of the castle, or their debate about what on earth the writing on some poster says. It makes them happy and there’s a whole blossoming community there, of happy people in a safe space.”

You know that Reddit will use this as leverage whenever they can right?

“We’re just some stupid, terminally-online folks who need to touch grass. Doing unpaid labor for an abusive place that doesn’t care. All to make some little virtual people on the other side of a box (who also hate us) happy.”

Why would you even talk about yourself like that?

If it wasn’t clear I am hardcore in the moderator camp.

I would not be a moderator even if you would glue me to a chair and threaten me to mod or I would be forced to watch every season of seinfeld in that same chair. I absolutely despise seinfeld.

You are literally the gateway between the community and Reddits pockets. Why do you think that Facebook pays a buttload of cash for their moderators.

I come of as harsh maybe, but for some reason I feel like I care more for the moderators then the moderators do for themselves.

You should be proud of the work you do and the shit you take on the daily.

Sorry if I come on strong, but believe me it isn’t to dunk on you or the moderators in any way, shape or form.

I am probably way to invested in this part of the saga so I will stop posting about this part at all.

I show enough consideration because of my post where I go deeper into the whole situation. I also used to be a part of the communities in Reddit.

You are missing my point.

If you really want change you should know what that would entice and what that would bring.

If you just wanted to posture and get brownie points then the 48 hour blackout was perfect for doing something without actually doing something.

But humeur me; How is this beneficial for the community in the long term?

What has Reddit shown that it cared about its communities and moderators over the years?

It does prove Steves point though; It all will blow over and people will bend the knee.

The motives of the community and Reddit do not align in the slightest.

I do not understand these posts at all.

It sounds like that you are just not interested in building a new community and rather go back to the ivory tower that is reddit.

If that is so just say it.

What are you gonna do when Reddit is gonna implement the next thing that would be unbeneficial to the community?

If you know that the possible new mods are asses, why not call reddits bluff?

Let them see what good moderation is about and what happens when you don’t care about the good moderators for years.

You are probably afraid that a new mod team would do just a good a job as you and you will be forgotten after a day. Then of course what would be all this for if change wouldn’t happen? Other questions you are asking yourself can entice; Is my moderation position really that hard to take over? Are the changes really affecting me?

You are probably afraid losing something that you put your own time and effort in and the idea that someone would ruin it or just take your place is a situation you are not ready for. I would understand all that but then why black out at all? Rigorous changes after 48 hours only happen in Disney movies, you should know that.

Sorry to say but most of the community does not give a damn about moderators and you know it. They care about the content that is provided to them that is what they are hooked on.

This only shows that Reddit has full control over you and your actions and they can do whatever they want to whomever they want because you will bulge the first second they threaten to take your moderations position away.

For the life of me I cannot understand why people would gladly be providing money in Reddits pockets, while the community and moderators don’t see a penny, don’t see any user improvements, get constantly lied to, while getting bend over on every turn.

I am gonna say this again; I thought moderators actually got paid by reddit. I was baffled when I heard a few days ago they weren’t. I thought and still think it would be absolutely ridiculous to invest your time and efforts for a profit making company for absolutely nothing in return.

In the meantime Steve huffman is spitting in your and the communities face every step of the way, not caring about you or the community at all.

I have a whole lot of respect to the people who gave up their mod positions just to make a stand for themselves.

I really don’t mind if subs stay open, if you like to moderate be my guest. If you don’t agree with the blackout, sure.

But the posturing about the greater good for the community, just don’t.

The 5% lay off is just a start.

They’re gonna cut corners wherever they can.

I’ve been on twitter once a day and it is overrun by bots,trolls and low quality tweets.

Insane what a sh*tshow it became.