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I don't remember what caused the Voat's origin, except it involved Reddit HQ. And then it went under in 2020.

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

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[–] gk99@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

It's the first one where average users were affected beyond the blackout, though. Other than the alt-righters nobody wanted there and weren't going to follow when they left. Patriots.win isn't a real community either, it's just constant Trump, Biden, and "democrats bad" content.

[–] Biscuit@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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?

[–] 1984@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

You know third party apps can't use the polls feature, right? Right?

[–] Joe@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The blackouts showed that the majority of people actually contributing to the site use third party apps

[–] Biscuit@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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