The sad truth is the other site will be fine, it'll just chug on without all of us -- or with us, in a reduced capacity. There will be times where it'll hit new highs of active users, even.
There has always been a market for disinformation and hate. If the other site suffers the same fate the equivalent news outlet does, it'll be the dominant social media platform in short order.
At the risk of being saccharine, I'm glad we're here and we have this. I hope you all stay.
@andrew If your looking at it solely from a social perspective. Yes, it could muddle along. But it’s facing a perfect storm of ways to fail, all hitting at the same time.
Content moderation is clearly failing to work. Copyright take downs aren’t happening. Spam is up. Apparently all of APAC has no language specific moderators now. This is going to put it in violation of country laws, and at risk of huge fines. Not to@mention potentially facilitating genocide.
Lacking technical knowledge to fix major issues.
Lost advertisers at the same time as taking on a debt load that almost certainly can never be met.
Tl;dr. It’s not going to die from lack of people, but from being unable to function legally and/or technically.
Andrew Leahey
Kee Hinckley