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Re:Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for t... by mebizzle on Thursday June 01, 2023 @03:36PM (#36156245)
With the Digg exodus, Reddit was already the strong #2 alternative for a decent amount of time so it was a no-brainer and obviously Reddit has grown exponentially beyond what Digg was.

I have no idea what is out there as an alternative at this point, there just seems to be too much chaff everywhere.

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Re:Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for t... by Casteil on Friday June 02, 2023 @12:22PM (#36167151)
Yep, Twitter is currently enjoying this effect of having no "close 2nd" choice for their user base to defect to.
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Re:Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for t... by johnnyanmac on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @04:57AM (#36210059)
I've looked for a long time. Tildes feels like a good #2, but it seems content remaining extremely small. I think it's still invite only after 5 years.

Pretty much all alternatives I looked at lacked community. Not expecting reddit numbers, but even a threshold as simple as "more than 5 posts/20 comments a day" was a huge hurdle here. Social media is just so centralized now.

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