Think about things from the point of view of someone who has never used Reddit or the fediverse, but you've heard about them both from recent news articles and want to see what they are about....
That's actually really good thing. In the U.S. not wanting to kill trans people makes you a "far left" person according to right-wingers. real "far left" people are pretty nuts, man. The vast majority of us are moderates who are now labeled as "far left" in the U.S. political discourse.
Well it depends on why the company has never managed to turn a profit. A great example is Amazon. I think it existed for like 15 years before it first turned a profit because it was aggressively growing and spending all of their income to try to grow more.
As for Reddit, they are not growing like Amazon did. However, capturing a large user base is worth something because they may be able to monetize those users eventually. Investors view simply having a large user base as pretty valuable.
Exactly. There's a reason Apple products are so successful. Apple does a fantastic job of hiding away unnecessary details and giving users a very slick, polished interface that usually does what they want. I'm not even a person who buys any Apple products.
Fediverse won't replace Reddit as long as Lemmy is the main platform being promoted (kbin.social) en
Think about things from the point of view of someone who has never used Reddit or the fediverse, but you've heard about them both from recent news articles and want to see what they are about....
Fidelity has cut Reddit valuation to $5.5B from $10B (techcrunch.com) en
I don’t understand people who say they can’t figure out Lemmy or KBin (kbin.fedi.cr) en
Does federation have a bit of a learning curve? No doubt....