I am principally opposed to what is going on with Reddit. But to be honest, I am much more practically opposed to using it without a third party app. Hence I have only just gotten around to join Lemmy now. If I wasn’t on vacation and had a bunch of time right now, I probably wouldn’t have joined until after the apps stopped working.

I expect that the practical reality of not being able to use your preferred Reddit app (which is still hours away) is going to be a big motivator compared to everything else leading up to this.

[–] spiderkle@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Which shows you how little reddit invested in their own development for mobile. It's a huge factor to have a good app that's intuitive and fun to use

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

I fully migrated but the vast majority of users won't. In fact, a significant portion of users that try Lemmy will likely go back to Reddit.

This is what happened with the Twitter -> Mastodon migration: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/06/op-ed-why-the-great-twittermigration-didnt-quite-pan-out/

[–] clicky@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

As long as a few of the niche communities that I care about can hit a critical mass on a lemmy instance somewhere, then I’m happy. Like, photography or endurance sports. I haven’t seen much of those yet, but hopefully we get there soon! Even just a thousand actually-active members is enough!

Unfortunately I’ll probably still use Reddit for their historical data for a while, but not logged in or posting anymore on principal.

We’ll see!