My best guess is that somebody will write a clone. It's not rocket science.
Re:Reddit Strike Has Started
by lelanthran on Monday June 12, 2023 @03:20AM
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> My best guess is that somebody will write a clone. It's not rocket science.
Maybe they will, but there's nothing to move to today.
With nothing to move to, the users aren't going to move. Having a viable place next week might be pointless.
There are multiple reddit clones, I think the biggest one is Lemmy.
Did you really think there was nothing else? Services like reddit are big because of their network effects, not because they have so special sauce that no one has been able to replicate.
Re:Reddit Strike Has Started
by lelanthran on Monday June 12, 2023 @11:56AM
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Anything federated the isn't a Reddit replacement, too much friction and users don't want to join multiple instances just to see all comments on a single topic.
Where are they gonna move to?
I'm not being facetious, I'd really rather like to know - where on earth are all these moderators going to start up their new groups on?
If there was a viable alternative they would've found it by now and there wouldn't be a strike, there'd be a desertion. The fact is that even if the moderators want to move, the userbase isn't necessarily going to follow them.