I won't say that a clean ui is not part of the problem. Just in this very thread there's people despising Reddit's redesign. The HN hivemind and others like UIs with information crammed on every pixel (for some reason) so I guess if there were an alternative that offered some "information density" setting, that very thing can do much to attract users.
About how to get said users. The 4 years I've been using Reddit and have seen the popular page, you're left with the sensation that much of it is just a giant aggregator of curated content from TikTok/Twitter/Instagram, in that order (and how almost everything is centered about the USA, but that's another story). I think people would engage to that new platform if there were a way to improve that process of bringing new and trending stuff from those other platforms (and Reddit itself) to a new alternative.
I won't say that a clean ui is not part of the problem. Just in this very thread there's people despising Reddit's redesign. The HN hivemind and others like UIs with information crammed on every pixel (for some reason) so I guess if there were an alternative that offered some "information density" setting, that very thing can do much to attract users.
About how to get said users. The 4 years I've been using Reddit and have seen the popular page, you're left with the sensation that much of it is just a giant aggregator of curated content from TikTok/Twitter/Instagram, in that order (and how almost everything is centered about the USA, but that's another story). I think people would engage to that new platform if there were a way to improve that process of bringing new and trending stuff from those other platforms (and Reddit itself) to a new alternative.