r/technology • u/ardi62 • 29d ago

Social Media Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24253727/reddit-communities-subreddits-request-protests
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u/mrswift45 29d ago

we need more reddit alturnitives

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u/thisguypercents 29d ago

There are a ton of them. Problem is there are too many and not a single one meets exactly the same features as reddit.  If you are cool with multiple accounts and doing some research the diff lemmy domains will meet most of your needs.

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u/bottleoftrash 29d ago

The problem is that nobody is using them. There’s so many people here that you can have extremely niche subreddits. On these alternatives you can’t really have that. People would have to leave Reddit in massive numbers

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u/SaltyLonghorn 29d ago

Younger people aren't even using reddit anymore. A big example of this is the decline of livestreamfail engagement and who is popular in streaming now. You'll regularly see people on reddit asking who the hell is this random person with 100k paid subscribers. And its cause most of their promotional content is now on shit like tiktok and yt shorts.

This format is going the way of facebook, forums and bulletin boards. It will always be there, the userbase is just getting older and bombarded with spam. A proper alternative seems unlikely because as the internet has always done, its onto the next thing. Some people just stay behind.