Im joining in on the reddit ditching thing, and was kinda worried at first that i wouldnt be able to like use it the way i did reddit as it feels like a whole new place, but after engaging with posts and people and actually being a part of lemmy rather than being lurk mode all the time i was pleasantly surprised with how easy it is to become a member of the community, theres a reasonable amount of subs (or whatever the other word for em is) that fit my interests, enough linux content and shitposting for my liking, and the overall random posts made by people equally fed up with Leddit. (also i admit i used reddit a little cus there was this post on the fedora sub showing how to fix a sound issue i been having after a recent update)
I’ve been thinking about this as well. Most reddit clones or reddit-likes in the last decade have failed after a wave of talking about how much “better” or “different” it is from reddit.
There’s an imbalance in the userbase that makes it impossible to compare to the digg migration or past forum community migrations.
What I mean by that is before digg died or fark or slashdot or msn messenger or myspace… the competitor was not only alive but thriving with an organically built local community.
The difference here can be seen in how “reddit refugees” are not looking to integrate but rather supplant. If not intentionally, simply by sheer numbers.
I don’t think there is an answer to this in a world where the internet has become 5 or so companies. At least not until there is at least an attempt at a more federated possibility. Like there was in the days of friendster and before.