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?

  • Biscuit@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    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?

    • Joe@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

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