Touche. I explained elsewhere, but I was frustrated after hearing that everyone in Reddit had turned against the blackouts. There were a few other reasons, but none worth getting into.
For what it’s worth, while I haven’t deleted my main Reddit account, I currently have no plans to go back. I’ve always been a proponent of having multiple options, so everything being at Reddit alone never sat well with me. I had tried lemmy and a few other things some time ago - usually when everyone protested Reddit - hoping something caught on. It usually ended up the same way - influx of people, fighting due to old vs new members, fracturing, quick abandonment, and everyone leaving.
I’m really hoping that doesn’t happen in this case, even if Reddit goes back to normal.
Users will rush in, there’ll be a high-water point, and the tide will roll back.
It’s too early to guess how many folks will remain vs return to reddit, but I doubt anything that happens on Lemmy this week can possibly be representative of what things will feel like one, two weeks from now.
At any rate, reddit’s numbers are way too artificial these days due to bots & spammers for their user metrics to be very meaningful, just like Twitter.
Stay the course where you want to see change. For me, that’s no longer reddit. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Touche. I explained elsewhere, but I was frustrated after hearing that everyone in Reddit had turned against the blackouts. There were a few other reasons, but none worth getting into.
For what it’s worth, while I haven’t deleted my main Reddit account, I currently have no plans to go back. I’ve always been a proponent of having multiple options, so everything being at Reddit alone never sat well with me. I had tried lemmy and a few other things some time ago - usually when everyone protested Reddit - hoping something caught on. It usually ended up the same way - influx of people, fighting due to old vs new members, fracturing, quick abandonment, and everyone leaving.
I’m really hoping that doesn’t happen in this case, even if Reddit goes back to normal.
I figure it’s like any other flood.
Users will rush in, there’ll be a high-water point, and the tide will roll back.
It’s too early to guess how many folks will remain vs return to reddit, but I doubt anything that happens on Lemmy this week can possibly be representative of what things will feel like one, two weeks from now.
At any rate, reddit’s numbers are way too artificial these days due to bots & spammers for their user metrics to be very meaningful, just like Twitter.
Stay the course where you want to see change. For me, that’s no longer reddit. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯