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worldpolitics: It's shitposting all the way down! @lemmy.world

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lol reddit is still kicking, people. Don't count your chickens yet.
- So is Facebook and Twitter. This meme is premature in triplicate.
  
  Twitter, despite Elon's best efforts, is not dead yet 😆
  
  All while the fediverse still has low numbers.
  I like the concept, but if your only selling point is "it's like email, you can use any instance" it's not going to be popular to most people.
- Moreover, killing Youtube will be harder than killing any of these social media. Serving video content is very expensive.
  
  The demands of video hosting is what makes me doubtful that decentralized YouTube could work.
  
  It could work if everyone that used it was interested in decentralizing it, but that seems impossible from my perspective
- It's a delusional circlejerk.
- I remember Voat and numerous other attempts to abandon Reddit.
  I really hope that this one sticks but it needs to be very robust (in terms of moderation, server capacity, user friendliness etc) if it is going to handle a large influx of users without breaking down.
- Agreed. Friends in my discord group still bring up reddit posts daily, usually in subs with games and memes.
  
  Yeah, I think that's because reddit just has the hugest communities for individual games and niche interests. There are some lemmy communities for some of the games I follow but there are like seven users in each of them. Lemmy is getting really good for broader topics like "games" or "technology" but isn't quite there yet for more narrow interests like "Dolphin emulator" for example.
- Still kicking but...somehow not the same. It's something I can't quite explain. There's just something different about it now. I had to look something up on Reddit a couple of days ago. It was the first time I'd been back since they killed all the third party apps. It reminded me of going back to a city I used to live but my friends were all gone and my favorite places to go had changed. So, while it was the same place, and there were plenty of people around, it seemed exhausted and forced.
  
  I know exactly what you mean.
- I managed to step on CM Punk's toe, now I'm ready to take on Jon Jones.

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