how much has saidit grown in these few days?

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[–]magnora7 16 insightful - 3 fun16 insightful - 2 fun17 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

No, I don't know why it's so consistent. It does vary though, sometimes with more niche sites like saidit it's sometimes 150 lurkers = 10 accounts = 1 post

More people lurk than post when it's niche. But I don't know why it's basically so relatively consistent. I guess it's just a feature of human psychology on a mass-statistical level.

[–]Bitchcraft 11 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Well tanks for working on saidit. I really hope that this place will not go the way of voat. Among the "alternative reddits" I've seen so far, this is the most promising.

[–]Wahwah 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

What is so wrong about Voat? Genuinely curious.

[–]apoliticalinactivist 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Suffered from being the new kid on the block.

Much like the internet, when reddit was new, it had a random sampling of people coming together to chat, which is what led to a great atmosphere. Voat was founded as a free speech bastion in response to the first major ban wave of reddit, meaning it wasn't a random sampling, only the most extreme folks. Obviously this caused the atmosphere of the site to be ...biased.

[–]magnora7 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Saidit has this issue too, but we have the good luck of having voat to draw away most of the super extreme people. This is another example of why having more forum alternatives creates a more healthy social media ecosystem. The long-time monopoly of reddit has created a warped monoculture, and even voat is a reflection of that like you point out