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See, that's the funny thing: I think that anything could have replaced reddit for us. As long as we choose to not let ourselves use reddit, even a shampoo bottle would suddenly be entertaining enough to waste our time, just like in the before-fore times without smartphones.
We would never go back to being productive and instead just look for another place to waste time. That Lemmy is pretty similar to reddit is just a bonus that makes it easier.
I'm not that sure. Forums have existed for niche communities since long, but over the past decade many niches migrated to Reddit due to its popularity, network effects and it's tree style comments + algorithmically -sorted feed.
I value having this in Lemmy and kbin.socisl etc. as well - and these things didn't exist until a while ago. And the fundamental content aggregation standard ActivityPub wasn't standardised as a W3C standard until 2018. The situation is indeed different now that it was back then.
This is what I was getting at. Any other point in time, people would have just sat on the sidelines until subs opened again, but now that alternatives exist, people have somewhere to go.
I personally think that regardless of Reddit going back on API pricing and what not, they burned too many bridges with outside devs that third party apps would be going away period. They didn’t just cross the line, the treated it like the Olympic long jump. Reddit did some real damage to a lot of communities, not just hobby’s but users with disabilities, neurodivergent users, and many more that relied on apps to help them use Reddit.
If it wasn’t for the fediverse, I’m not gonna lie, I’d probably go back. But now that I’m here, no way.