It’s not a great replacement for a forum experience, a “I need to search for an answer to a specific question” experience, or anything like that.
But for the sense of community that people tended to identify with their favorite subs? I think it’s a pretty solid platform. Still has all the same issues regarding any centralized service run by a company, but that’s going to be the case for the vast majority of replacements until there’s a major paradigm shift across the world.
Absolutely not. And in no way is it a viable replacement for Reddit. Not now. Not ever.
I mean, it probably is the best chat app besides privacy. That is, unfortunately, not at all relevant to replacing Reddit.
It’s not a great replacement for a forum experience, a “I need to search for an answer to a specific question” experience, or anything like that.
But for the sense of community that people tended to identify with their favorite subs? I think it’s a pretty solid platform. Still has all the same issues regarding any centralized service run by a company, but that’s going to be the case for the vast majority of replacements until there’s a major paradigm shift across the world.