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Re:Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets ... by judge2020 on Saturday June 27, 2020 @04:38PM (#23664486)
If i'm a redditor that looks at r/dankmemes and r/gifs all day, or a creator for those subreddits, I don't see why I would leave reddit for a competitor. Without these people coming from reddit, it'll have the same problem as voat where nobody is looking for - or even willing to try - alternatives unless they were rejected.
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Re:Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets ... by rglullis on Saturday June 27, 2020 @05:17PM (#23664755)
You know it's not an either/or proposition, right? You can still use reddit even if you also have an account at the competitor.

But anyway: if you are someone that only cares about looking at whatever BigCorp allows you to look, then sure, keep using reddit.

If you'd like to have some form of control over the content you value, create and would like to promote, then your best bet is to fight for alternatives to the current big centralized systems.

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