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The Apollo dev banned and removed all my comments suggesting Lemmy as an alternative to reddit. (lemmy.ml)
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I usually don't get too salty about these things, but that seemed uncalled for, especially since I'm on their side.

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[–] jiml78@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I agree. But like Twitter alternatives, two things are required. Products that that have feature parity and quick mass adoption.

I have seen it happen twice to large sites. MySpace to Facebook. That happened fast. Then I saw digg to Reddit.

Both those cases Facebook and Reddit respectively had feature parity(ones that mattered) if not more features. But as a heavy digg user, I still struggled with Reddit.

Mastodon has struggled to get wide adoption and people are still using Twitter so I am not sure it will ever happen.

I think if Lemmy wants to succeed and take market share from Reddit, the mobile apps need to greatly improve in the next month. I am not shitting on any of the current apps but they aren’t remotely close to having parity with RIF or Apollo. And that makes sense as those apps are really mature.