BlackCoffee

joined 2 years ago
[–] BlackCoffee@kbin.social 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Reddit is almost 20 years old now?

Do you expect Lemmy and Kbin to be an immediate replacement or an replacement at all?

[–] BlackCoffee@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

My thoughts when people still want to strike on reddit;

[–] BlackCoffee@kbin.social 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

People are way to shortsighted to see how it can affect them as well.

The amount of "I don't use 3rd party apps so it doesn't affect me" comments were very noticable.

These changes and the ones that Reddit will implement to rail the userbase even harder will affect the people one way or the other at some point.

[–] BlackCoffee@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

The more people who will get on the platform the easier it will be to shut the intolerant and bullshitters out.

[–] BlackCoffee@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

This reminds me of the last week tonight episode with edward snowden.

It was about privacy and the people interviewed didn't care until the question was phrased if it were dickpics the government had access to.

https://youtu.be/XEVlyP4_11M

The interview with snowden starts around 14:00

and the fragment about the dickpics around 25:00.

[–] BlackCoffee@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And then we all woke up and realise the russian people are gonna do nothing.

[–] BlackCoffee@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

It is Random chance.

I have read your comments;

"I think it's probably doomed. It'll never overtake reddit. But, it'll be a nice, quiet, alternative."

No one knows if it is doomed.

You have to start somewhere but you can't expect a platform that has seen an huge influx of users the past weeks to immediately operate on the scale of what Reddit does.

"I humbly apologize for my personal, speculative, opinion about the unknowable future. The downvotes have made me realize my math was wrong, my opinion is wrong, and I am wrong. My corrected opinion is that Lemmy will overtake Meta, Mastadon, Twitter, and Google (wtf is reddit!?), and every upvote will be worth $1000, making everyone rich! Or, we can have fun guessing, and wait and see how things go. I hope they go well!"

Who is claiming the above?

The fun thing is that Mastodon is in your list and before the fuckery with Twitter it didn't really have traction.

Why can't lemmy/Kbin be the same in a year from now?

The problem for Reddit, is that it made people actually look for alternatives. It is stupid for a competitor to make it's customers aware of the competition, but Reddit did exactly that.

Maybe it flops, maybe it stays "niche", maybe it explodes in popularity.

I think it is indeed random chance and just being at the right place at the right time.

[–] BlackCoffee@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Should we care that other people still use reddit?

Do you have to chose one or the other?

Why are people so hell bent to "take over" Reddit?

I found an alternative in Kbin and Lemmy that suits my needs and focuses on user experience and growing communities instead of growing the pockets of a handful of people.

I decide to not use Reddit anymore because the upper echelon can go fuck themselves.

Is it so weird to have a set of values and stop using a service/product, because they cross the boundaries one has set for themselves?

I have used Reddit for more than a decade and I haven't missed it all.

I am here because I enjoy it and not because I have a deeper desire for Reddit to evaporate out of nowhere.

[–] BlackCoffee@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

FF7 crisis core for the PSP and it is not even close.

The story, the music, the english voice acting, the cut scenes, the gameplay; it was al just fenomenal.

It is still the best story based game I played and the ending just hits you right in the feels.

My Reddit name that I used was actually based on the Loveless poem, Genesis recited in the game (favorite character with Zack Fair).

[–] BlackCoffee@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yes. Rotating between Lemmy & Kbin.

Actually getting work done during the day also.

Reddit on Mobile is completely dead to me and I will only use it on my desktop for specific searches if the info is not available elsewhere (last resort).

0.1% of the time wil be spend on Reddit, with an ad blocker of course.

[–] BlackCoffee@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Why should it be ads?

There are so many different ways to have some form of monetization that is not intrusive.

Running Ads is not the only way to keep the lights on.

[–] BlackCoffee@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

Nothing as spiteful as a Redditor done wrong

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