• KillaBeez@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    If something like this can pop up in weeks and provide all of the functionality people need, what makes Reddit valuable in the first place?

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      1 year ago

      Lemmy has been around for years.

      to answer your question. ability to scale to millions of users and having broad appeal.

      features can be copied but scale and other non functional requirements like security takes time

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    1 year ago

    Wefwef offers an almost identical experience to Apollo and is a webapp so you don’t need to mess with TestFlight and also works on Android.

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    1 year ago

    Mlem is basically Apollo for Lemmy. I’m enjoying Memmy too. Honestly the only value Reddit has is the user base. The diversity of apps and the lack of corporate ownership already make this space far more exciting than Reddit

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    1 year ago

    To answer the title question: reddit is a part of the zeitgeist, and people use it fairly regularly. By serving everyone ads disguised as posts (and shutting down API access to ensure that all traffic is served ads) they can greatly increase their revenue. Most social media has this same model.

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      1 year ago

      Yup. They already have millions of users hooked, so they can feed them ads and low-quality content and most will stay.