I have joined a handful of alternatives since the Great Reddit Blackout, but I haven't considered VOAT mainly because it was always down, but also because it attracts (and welcomes) people like the FPH crowd and I don't want to be surrounded by people like that. I haven't left Reddit entirely yet but I have unsubbed from a lot of subreddits and I do think that it's dying. It won't disappear completely, I don't think. (Even Myspace still exists) but it will be one of those sites that people talk about in years to come, like "You remember Reddit?" "Yeah, is that old thing STILL running?"
I agree wholeheartedly with what ChrisTyler says: that the future will be several alternatives all co-existing. Perhaps in time they will settle to cater to different population groups, but I see no reason why there needs to be only one.
I have joined a handful of alternatives since the Great Reddit Blackout, but I haven't considered VOAT mainly because it was always down, but also because it attracts (and welcomes) people like the FPH crowd and I don't want to be surrounded by people like that. I haven't left Reddit entirely yet but I have unsubbed from a lot of subreddits and I do think that it's dying. It won't disappear completely, I don't think. (Even Myspace still exists) but it will be one of those sites that people talk about in years to come, like "You remember Reddit?" "Yeah, is that old thing STILL running?"
I agree wholeheartedly with what ChrisTyler says: that the future will be several alternatives all co-existing. Perhaps in time they will settle to cater to different population groups, but I see no reason why there needs to be only one.