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 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.