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It won’t take over Reddit, and doesn’t need to. Reddit will continue on, but be sort of irrelevant to the kind of people hanging out on Kbin.
I think the growth in the last month has shown that the Fediverse is already doing ok, despite it’s much smaller user base than Reddit, Twitter etc.
There is a nice amount of interesting content, plenty of interesting discussions, and a user base that frankly is more informed and thoughtful than most Reddit users. We don’t need massive growth to keep things interesting. Threads with 2k responses are kind of a turn off. I prefer enough chit chat to keep things interesting, while still feeling a bit personal and cozy.
Threads with 2k responses are kind of a turn off.
Once it gets beyond a certain point, it’s no longer an exchange, but mostly people throwing stuff out there to see what sticks.
Reddit will continue to be the King in size. What was accomplished is that there is now an alternative that isn’t a Voat clone this time around with a more broader demographic leaving.
I think reddit will remain in a sort of zombified form for quite some time. I don’t know if there will be any more outright migrations of subreddits for a while, but hopefully kbin (and lemmy) will become interesting places to post and read all on their own and maybe eventually take the place on the internet reddit had. Reddit started out as a small place dominated by tech nerds and eventually grew to the place it is today, so it’s possible that kbin/lemmy do something similar. I don’t know if this means an outright takeover, and I don’t know if that’s what I’m hoping for either to be honest. I would rather see kbin become it’s own thing on it’s own terms.
I think at best it will be gradual, and it won’t be Kbin that takes over, but the combination of Kbin, Lemmy, and whatever other applications that pop up that handle the same Fediverse link aggregation.
Even then, there seems to be a resistance to Federated services by the bulk of the population, so if someone can make another centralized, capital-funded link aggregator, I’d guess that it would pick up more of the Reddit exodus than here.
Kbin alone probably won’t take over Reddit but the fediverse could. Reddit will stick around, just like Facebook and MySpace are still out there.
