I'll be using both platforms and seeing how it goes. Lemmy has a totally different vibe, but it's a welcome one. Feels like the old days of the open internet. Also the memes are better 😂
Just a few days ago, the Reddit talk had already died down. With the mass exodus, it will be talked about for a bit before it dies down again.
Imo, that's good engagement. It's what people are going through. There's no reason to ignore it. Just as long as they don't keep talking about it a month from now.
Eh, this is the internet. Reddit and Twitter being dumpster fires this week is the hot topic. Something will likely come up soon enough to become the next circlejerk. But, to your point, it keeps driving engagement, which will increase traffic and conversation, and as long as the knuckleheads steer clear will help us build vibrant communities.
For months after the digg refugees showed up, the reddit frontpage was flooded with posts talking about digg - the changes, it's leadership, and what it was doing now or how it's metrics were failing.
I expect the exodus to be much less than some others are calling for, only because people are way more stubborn to breaking up with content than the app that serves it
Content is one of Lemmy's biggest problems right now. Even if you're looking at niche subs on Reddit there are plenty of posts and activity, where as here most of the communities are pretty barren in comparison.
Hopefully, the influx of new users will start to generate a bit of momentum to jump start the process.
Reddit has makers and viewers. I hope that this change moves makers here so the viewers will follow. The garbage app caters to viewers so I can see it pushing the makers out.
Honestly, today with Reddit going through with the API changes and Twitter absolutely destroying their platform, this kind of feels like a lovely little campfire away from a collapsing civilization.
Not to be super dramatic, both platforms will still live, but lord it's a weird couple of days for some internet communities.
Honestly I made my Lemmy account and subscribed to communities a couple weeks ago, but still found myself opening Apollo all the time. Now that it opens to an empty screen I’ve been opening wefwef instead and the community feels much more alive than it did a few weeks ago. I think the impact will be bigger than expected.
I've heard about Lemmy a while ago, but I was too lazy to go there, let alone register. Now, once Sync died, I felt becoming a Lemmy member was the only way.
I think the people that came here from the first reddit migration should have moved on from talking about reddit already. the new wave give them 2 weeks and we should be good to go. usually takes about 1 week to get over a breakup LMAO!