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Devils advocate:

The poor showing of migrated communities - both low volume of migrations, and poor performance of the servers running them, isn’t helping the cause.

Like, I look at that list and the broken-overloaded lemmys running them and I can’t help but think this is why Reddit is successful and will continue to be successful. Because very, very few will put up with such a poor experience the alternatives offer.

Of course, if there’s some serious effort put in asap into the usability, stability and overall experience of the decentralised communities approach, then Reddit may falter. I’m not optimistic.

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Tô be fair, Reddit had a long time to grow organically, it didn't just spawn with millions of users overnight - same for most subreddits.

Still, users now expect an active community and a fast and reliable website right now, not in 10 years.

Lemmy/Kbin/whatever is not going to _replace_ Reddit today, and I don't think they ever meant to replace it all at once... but maybe they can keep growing and eventually get there.