Plus their popularity is intrinsically tied to Reddit as a whole. They will have zero ability to peal users away.
A "Reddit" with hundreds of thousands of active users, perhaps growing to an HN size community over years, is far more appealing to me at least than a giant that comes out of the gate baying for VC money and blood.
I don't see federated alternatives taking off after Mastodon/Twitter. Most people I followed on Twitter didn't move to Mastodon, they simply stopped posting anywhere.
My feeling is these platforms will slowly die, but that'll take a very long time to come to fruition, same as digg and myspace.
Apollo wouldn't even have to get all of its users over, even 10% would be a great start for organic growth.
Even more: It would catapult Apollo into an actual controlling role regarding its market share on the new platform.
Definitely seems a lot better than giving up. Reddit has confirmed its plans to die multiple times, so there's not much of a point still hoping for a change.
But also I think people would want something like Lemmy or another federated service, which don’t really fit into Apollo that well. (Instances, federated login, etc) so I don’t really think it would’ve been feasible anyway.
He backtracked when asked about it, but to me there is no other way to parse his comments and not have the meaning be a threat.
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