Nothing drastic will happen or change, because it's not users who will be leaving the site, but moderators, and still only a tiny fraction of moderators. Majority of subs will be exactly as they were a month ago. They would be leaving for lack of better moderation tools and API which lemmy also doesn't have, so it's not a real alternative to migrate to.

The only thing that would make users start moving would be complete lack of moderation of top100 subreddits, which we know won't happen because if one mod leaves, there always will be someone who will be happy and enthusiastic to be granted the dfake internet respect for being a mod of a major subreddit.

[–] hydroel@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Most 3rd party Reddit apps will be gone, and Reddit have shown willingness to move to a far more closed model than it used to be. Mods were and are not the only ones to leave.

[–] animist@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah people like you and me care about that, but let's face it, if the average user cared about how shitty social media sites treat them then FB and Twitter would be deserts

[–] Hillmarsh@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FB is a desert compared with the old days, and Twitter will get there as well. Maybe the "AI revolution" can replace all the organic human content with fake people, but that's about their only chance long term. If you can even call such a thing a "win".

[–] animist@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

I hope that is the case with FB but according to my American friends it's still the social media site of choice for racist uncles everywhere

[–] agilob@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Only a few technical people care about it and it's an ideological thing. Just wait and watch. Nothing will change, maybe things will break for a day or two, but by Thursday no one will remember it.

[–] eleitl@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you remember Orkut? Digg? Slashdot?

Revisit Reddit one, two, three years from now. I think you might be surprised.

[–] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Something something remind me robot

I think you're right though. We are witnessing a seismic shift is how we interact online.

[–] lemmyseizethemeans@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I wasn't a technical personal. I used bacon reader. Now I can't so it's so long reddit hello Lemmy. Easy transition

[–] Reliant1087@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

My take is slightly different. Apart from content you would find of Twitter/Instagram/Facebook/Tiktok, what makes reddit powerful is human experts, especially in STEM and tech. I see many of these people leaving and reddit becoming a meme + yt comments platform.

[–] sisyphean@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Lemmy actually has a really good API. Moderation tools are pretty simple though.