Was there even a mass exodus? I largely avoid Reddit now, but I do kind of doubt that they’ve been hurt in any meaningful way by all the protests and people leaving…

  • bratorange@feddit.de
    3·
    2 years ago

    Is it important that Reddit suffers? For me the important thing is that lemmy flourishes and has good oc.

    • FierroGamer@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      2 years ago

      I support this point of view, but at the same time I want the status quo to be disrupted and the internet to change, I’m not a fan of allowing corporations to fall into complacency when they hold so much power.

  • voidMainVoid@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    No idea, and I don’t care. What matters for me is that there are enough people on Lemmy to keep it interesting.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    0·
    2 years ago

    I think the damage done to Reddit is not from protests but the bad management decisions – enshittification as Corey Doctorow put it – in order to hasten Reddit’s IPO. The attitude by upper management, taking user content for granted, is going to continue to serve to chase users away, or drive them to deprioritize engagement with Reddit.

    I’m missing only a couple of communities here on Lemmy but otherwise it serves me as a daily feed. And reddit still can be searched for troubleshooting.

    • Meowoem@sh.itjust.works
      01·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, 90% of the users don’t care about the drama but also they don’t make most the content. The people starting subreddits and doing the work to get them popular do care and they’re coming over here, same with the bot coders and app makers.

      Going forward a lot of interesting stuff is going to be here rather than Reddit, the more that continues the more likely it is average uses will have an account on both which will grow into them getting more involved here and eventually forgetting about Reddit.

      Reddit hasn’t been killed instantly but it’s shot in the leg and bleeding out…

  • soulifix@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 years ago

    If we’re perfectly honest - No.

    Reddit has over 53 some odd million users. Million with an M. Lemmy has gained, at most, upwards of just thousands. To call it a ‘mass exodus’ is really overselling it.

    It’s going to take a fairly long time, for Lemmy to even scratch 100k even. I’m on both Reddit and Lemmy. Lemmy, for a more positive experience. Reddit, because the numbers are just there.

    • Althea@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      This crisis has given Lemmy enough users to be a vibrant, viable alternative with the software and apps undergoing rapid development. This means the next time that reddit tries to pull some shit, there will be somewhere for people to go, unlike this time. Lemmy just wasn’t really ready for prime time.

  • GoddessOfGouda@lemmy.world
    01·
    2 years ago

    Personally I came over bc the app I used stopped working (boost). Lemmy seems to have the same content I used reddit for:

    • US politics headlines
    • Memes
    • Niche communities

    I don’t plan on going back to reddit unless it’s via Boost. Fediverse is better anyway