As long as /r/Singapore and other sg subs remain online, alternatives are unlikely to gain traction

Unfortunately, looking at the comments in the Singapore reddit it seems that for many, /r/singapore remains their primary subreddit of choice and are unaffected by the reddit blackout

Users will always follow the path of least resistance and reddit alternatives for Singapore will never take off unless we can hit critical mass and offer good content for users to reduce/stop and cutover. I doubt it'll happen even if /r/singapore goes dark as they'll then move to /r/sg/ or /r/askSingapore.

Not to mention the current state of kbin.social and the technical jargon hurdles that intrigued users would be exposed to.

That being said if the primary subs continue to remain offline/restricted, I'm hopeful that more and more users will start to move out as the information and content on reddit starts to get stale. Then we can continue to build a secondary community here on kbin and observe as reddit - while probably will still be dominant, becomes the next facebook.

WarpDrive,

There's also a bigger one on lemmy.world with 62 people, and one on lemmy.ml with 20 people, so about a hundred people. I've been creating accounts on a bunch of servers and I can't tell if I'm making a mistake or there's some glitch. Some servers can see the others, some can't find anything whatsoever. Kbin can see some, not all, but apparently can't join any. At present time, I can't imagine most people having the patience to sit through this.

maskapony,

I think what you need to bear in mind is that it's still early days, I was there for the birth of both Twitter and Reddit, even before there was subreddits, the userbase was similarly very small.

I think what is important is that Kbin now starts to develop as an alternative, the reason the Digg exodus was so brutal was that Reddit was there as an alternative and a small but loyal userbase and so when Digg did what they did then everyone migrated almost overnight.

Before Kbin there wasn't really an alternative and now there are 130k or so users here and maybe we can grow over the next months too.

If we start to build the communities here too then there will at least be an option for an alternative.

Mounticat,
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I'm here to support it for sure. It's important that alternatives develop, because the internet deserves to be democratic and controlled by the users.

sangrilla,

I thought r/singapore went dark? Are they back?

maskapony,

They went dark for the two days according to Singapore time yes so now it's back online.

sangrilla,

I thought it's joining all the sub to go dark for 3 days, 12 through 14. Didn't know they only do it for 2 or maybe I misunderstood the original intention.

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