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…

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    Migration goes beyond sheer numbers. The 3.8k users are probably the one that were the most attached to initial Reddit, hence people who would contribute the more. I would rather be with those 3.8k users than the millions of people okay with staying on Reddit despite Spez’s decisions.

    I hope that once Lemmy is a bit more polished (instance blocking, account migration, hot filtering working etc.), we will gradually see a second wave of arrivals.

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      Or those 3.8k users were on Apollo, RIF etc that didn’t bring any revenue to Reddit regardless.

      They could care less about these users leaving, there are plenty of new angsty teenagers to take their place

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        A very good point. To be honest, if they are happy with that new demographic, and we are happy here, everyone’s happy

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      Unfortunately, as one of those 3.8k daily users, I’m still using Reddit mostly. Lemmy has a long way to go before I drop Reddit all the way.

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        That’s fine, really. There is no rush, the only people setting deadlines here were Reddit, and they still have to actually do something about killing access to 3rd parties (I know a lot of people still use 3rd party apps with Revanced keys)

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      The next wave won’t come until Lemmy post are indexed by google and ranking up on the first page. Until then, searching for obscure things will still land on old Reddit posts.

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        Depending on the domain, Reddit content might get outdated quite fast (definitely true for tech content).

        Even creative fields such as fantheories and such will probably emerge on Lemmy once new shows are released (Futurama could be a good example).