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Neither is Digg. Or myspace. Or many of dozens of services that used to be popular and fell into irrelevance.
But Reddit is hardly irrelevant. they are still MASSIVE compared to those examples
Lemmy is irrelevant compared to Reddit. Completely and utterly. Thereβs what, a single medium-sized subreddit over all instances here?
Being in its infancy doesn't make it irrelevant.
The three words he typed after irrelevant were kinda important to his point.
And they were implied in my own, but I'm happy to extend my statement for you: Being in its infancy doesn't make it irrelevant compared to Reddit. In fact, that line of thinking from Reddit's leadership will lead them to obscurity more quickly than if they take this seriously. Just existing as a viable alternative is a big deal. We haven't had one for a very long time.