I hope Lemmy will become this. Here is my strategy:

1. Create a Lemmy community (for example [email protected]).
2. Submit something every few days. Not much quality control. Quantity over quality for now.
3. Hope for a community to form.

Reddit will probably go through with its plan to charge third party apps large amounts of money for API access. (75%)

The Reddit blackout protest might cause changes to their upcoming API update. (42%)

Reddit will probably not IPO in 2023. (34%)

Where is this from? It says „outages reported“, so it is random people’s opinions? Maybe people believe Reddit is down because their frontpage is empty now?

Sounds like you would prefer a peer2peer approach instead of federation? A few years ago, I wrote up why I don’t belief in p2p. In short: It’s too costly and too complex.

Well, initially he moderated everything. He also creates lots of sock puppets for fake activity. That would be much easier today with chatgpt.

I would not bet on that. In fact, i bet some play money against that.

My Reddit frontpage only contains a few minor subs still which are probably without an active moderator and some „going dark“ announcements. Very noticeable.

You belong to the [email protected] ;)

The great subreddits are full of „self“ posts, not links. How could one recreate that in an authentic way?

I mostly left when they killed the compact UI. Only using it on my laptop from time to time.