I never made a claim that Lemmy was even remotely comparable to reddit in size. Just stating that reddit users fled to here, when reddit made staggering changes affecting many.
for the past 4 years reddit (and most other community activities across the web) has already bled to fb groups. any google result of reddit content are on average 4-7 years old now, marking the date of when things began to change. the blackout was the beginning of the end though and there is no way they will recover now that the api is for all intents and purposes in permanent lockdown.
I don’t use Google, but I get plenty of DDG results in the past year, and I’ve been exclusively on Lemmy since before the API change. The older posts have a lot of deletions, but the newer posts are generally pretty free of them, and it seems to be business as usual. Reddit is locking down their site for search, but they’ll probably do for others what they did for Google and license it out for either AI or traditional search.
So from what I can see, Reddit weathered the “exodus.” In fact, since their IPO, the stock has approximately tripled.
If something takes down Reddit, it’s not going to be a community solution like Lemmy, it’ll be another for-profit corporate entity. Look at the Twitter/X “exodus,” they seem to be flocking to Blue Sky and Threads, not Mastodon. There’s a good chance that whatever comes next will be worse in all the ways that we came to Lemmy to avoid.
I never made a claim that Lemmy was even remotely comparable to reddit in size. Just stating that reddit users fled to here, when reddit made staggering changes affecting many.
It’s a blip, a pretty insignificant one at that.
It’ll probably eventually happen, but I doubt Lemmy will be a significant part of it. But who knows, maybe I’m wrong.
for the past 4 years reddit (and most other community activities across the web) has already bled to fb groups. any google result of reddit content are on average 4-7 years old now, marking the date of when things began to change. the blackout was the beginning of the end though and there is no way they will recover now that the api is for all intents and purposes in permanent lockdown.
I don’t use Google, but I get plenty of DDG results in the past year, and I’ve been exclusively on Lemmy since before the API change. The older posts have a lot of deletions, but the newer posts are generally pretty free of them, and it seems to be business as usual. Reddit is locking down their site for search, but they’ll probably do for others what they did for Google and license it out for either AI or traditional search.
So from what I can see, Reddit weathered the “exodus.” In fact, since their IPO, the stock has approximately tripled.
If something takes down Reddit, it’s not going to be a community solution like Lemmy, it’ll be another for-profit corporate entity. Look at the Twitter/X “exodus,” they seem to be flocking to Blue Sky and Threads, not Mastodon. There’s a good chance that whatever comes next will be worse in all the ways that we came to Lemmy to avoid.