I’ve heard Reddit is setting themselves up for another major fumble and that it relates to how much Spez is a fanboy of Elon Musk.
I can’t find any details on the drama playing out though. Can someone explain the details of what’s going on?
I would love to see Lemmy grow with another big “Rexxit” event, but I’m not seeing anything happening to cause one.
Anecdotal, but reddit is REALLY cracking down on users regarding the protests related to the US/North America tariffs. There is a very murky line as to what reddit corporate wants people to say and not say regarding the protests people are organizing on corporate owned social media because sure.
Same with the inevitable pushback against blocking twitter.
That said: I sincerely doubt it will go anywhere. It took YEARS for people to leave twitter and that was only because a different corporate owned social media, bluesky, had open sign-ups. There is no alternative to reddit.
So we might see a small burst of newbies on lemmy. They’ll likely get driven away by the usual suspects.
There’s no alternative to Reddit? Wh… What am I using right now? Am I hallucinating?
Like I said. It took years for people to leave twitter and it was only because bluesky had open sign-ups.
They don’t want the fediverse. They want giant corporate sites that make things “easy” and involve no thought.
So no, lemmy is not an alternative to the vast majority of reddit.
I think there won’t be any kind of gigantic wave of users swapping over to the Fediverse. Rather small groups of people gradually become more and more frustrated with reddit.
If you look at twitter, people love to cry about the platform they are on. It took a lot for them to finally leave it and even then many didn’t burn their bridges. Consequences are somehow anathema to some people.
Before anyone is mass migrating here there will be rather another centralised commercial site popping up. Just like with Bluesky instead of Mastodon when people got finally fed up with Xitter.
Fediverse and its applications are too niche for that. Personally, who cares, we do have a decent amount of people here already. Plus we have our own drama too. I am not sure this place would change for the better with the masses coming over from Reddit.
