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Lot of wishful thinking in here. Fact is, Reddit isn't going anywhere.
What will likely happen is the worst assholes will be the ones paying for this stuff, much like Xitter, because it is a demonstration of being a part of the alt-right, ultra-capitalist in-group.
Huffman is a greedy bastard, but I don't think he's alt-right. He's a bland neoliberal hypocrite. He is an advisor at the ADL and made a post saying that black lives matter, while not actually doing anything to help and actively profiting from what he said he was against.
It was wishful thinking when people revolted for 3 days against the API going away. What happened? Nothing. People were back to Reddit as normal a week later. Reddit's userbase has only grown since then. People will complain to the ends of the Earth but there's no amount of abuse you can levy at the them that will convince them to make the minor inconvenience of moving to a different platform. See: Twitter.
Lemmy's largest userbase growth of all time, ever, happened during the reddit API fiasco.
Did some people leave? Sure. Any actual significant portion? No, not even a little.
Yes. More than a little. It was a huge event for lemmy. Did you think the entire reddit userbase was going to switch in one week? Reddit didn't get their userbase in one week. It's a process. Now there is a well known alternative to reddit. Everything in reddit looks shittier than it was before the exodus. It's nearly impossible to become a 'new user' on reddit and with the rando-bans they keep giving out they are just going to keep shrinking.
If you'd like to post evidence that contradicts my source, please do. "Leaving" for a few days doesn't count.
I was not discussing anything to do with "switching", I was discussing users leaving Reddit.
Maybe they encountered so many charming people like you on Lemmy they had to go back to Reddit in case they turned nice?
Would that mean they switched and switched back? Or left and re-joined?
Ah yes, because we all know Reddit only has the nicest folks...
Well it looks like they’re missing at least one 😉
Missing one...?
You of course! Silly goose
I don't get it. I belong on Reddit because I'm a nice person?
I was really tempted to continue playing along here but then I thought you may just be Autistic and unable to follow….
You appear to be a little aggressive with your messages, normal people don’t communicate in such a confrontational way. Just take a step back, take a deep breath, and try to have civil disagreements with people.
We’re all just here to read some stuff, learn some stuff and try to ignore our real lives for a bit… let’s try and have fun while we’re here.
Guys we are responsible for creating good atmosphere, don’t offload your emotional baggage here.
This is our turf and you create it, build it. What you put here will be the thing you take out
You call me autistic in one sentence and accuse me of being confrontational, then ask me to be civil in the next. I think maybe you need to work on your communication skills.
This guy getsn't it
There's also no correlation between creating a Lemmy account and completely quitting Reddit.
No, but it's a reasonable assumption that individual will be spending less time on the platform, at the very minimum.
Personally, I haven't used Reddit on my phone since they killed third party apps, although I have used the desktop site for a few subreddits that don't really exist here.
Reddit has over 1,000,000,000 active users per month. Lemmy has about 50,000. The API fiasco was a big deal for lemmy, but it was not a big deal for reddit. Lemmy is a rounding error to them.
I would also bet that a lot of lemmy users still visit reddit for their niche communities. I know I do, even though I host a server for my own niche hobby, but I'm the only one who's ever posted anything to it.
How many of them are real users vs bots though? It's easy to inflate numbers
Meh, I deleted my account and moved on. Other than snarky comments I don't really care what happens to it anymore.