Asklemmy

I think at least 1% will stay, but due to how massive Reddit is, that will be enough to survive.

Yeah I'll definitely return. I find myself opening Boost by habit way too much lol. Lemmy and Jerboa are also a bit janky and I find the default pages and algorithm weird. That said it seems like as a result, or maybe just because of the low amount of content, posts stay active for longer, whereas most 1 day old posts on Reddit are basically dead.

I used to use the official app for a long time before switching to Boost, which is more usable and customisable, and also ad-free after paying a one-time fee. Just after I switched the official app made some unpopular changes so I didn't look back, but I recently checked it and it seems that there are a few new features introduced that I find useful, including being able to download videos easily which will be an essential feature if bots will stop working in the future. Playing videos are still janky though. If I'm forced to go back I'll definitely use revanced to strip the ads.

As I understand it the changes will be even more painful for the mods though, even if Reddit promised to not touch bots that help mods.

That said I've created a Lemmy account and downloaded Jerboa so I'll probably still use Lemmy occasionally just to see what's here.

Can't say for most people, but I can share my experience.

I signed up for Lemmy and Mastodon around the time the Reddit API news broke out. Before that, I use Reddit for news and discussions in communities I'm interested in, and Twitter for following internet people. For now, Lemmy has been satisfactory enough for me to not want to go back to Reddit all the time, but most internet creators I follow are still on Twitter, so I can't switch fully to Mastodon just yet.

I'm going back.

The community search functions are next to useless, the fragmentation of communities makes it harder to manage, and the Jerboa app is infinitely worse than the Reddit main app

For me I plan on replacing it entirely and staying. Do I think this place is going to ultimately usurp reddit no. Do I think that lemmy will be able to provide for me everything I used to get on reddit maybe but certainly not immediately. But it's nice to be in a smaller setting it's nice to have less drama and I honestly just prefer fed style now that I understand it. Getting rid of suits in charge and ads in our faces is more than enough to keep me here even if there's not as much content.

I think it's really better in here. People are more friendly, there's a general feeling of being part of something. Problem is, there is a MASSIVE disparity in terms of content. Reddit has been around for a long time, and has a shit ton of users constantly posting. I really want to stay here, but I think it's gonna be a rough experience for a few months at least.

2 things.

Firstly, most will go back. With the enshittification of twitter in November mastodon experienced an influx of new users. It feels like for several weeks activity doubled, then it died down to about 30% of the increase and stayed there. So while most go back it was still great for Mastodon. Fosstodon users increased from 10k to 60k in a month.

Secondly, it's not a mutually exclusive binary thing. Reddit will always have some great niche communities. There's nothing wrong with following those, but you can also continue to follow some lemmy communities too.

Lemmy doesn't need to become a reddit killer over night. I think for the fediverse in general there will be a few events like this each year, and if the fediverse get's some exposure and increases in size, it just makes it more viable for the next round.

The real test will be when the apps go dark at the end of June.

I hope we can create a community that they want to be a part of. It takes a lot more than just lurking like I did at reddit.

I started getting into Lemmy with the reddit API announcement like many others. if the RIF app shuts down I'm never going back, and even if it manages to stick around I probably will be done with reddit. I've committed to Lemmy at this point, I'm trying to build a pathfinder RPG community here, and I've been contributing to many other communities where I can.

I usually scrolled my subreddits, but the things I absolutely sought out on reddit were the wrestling sub and subs devoted to the toy lines I collect. There are discords for those things, but I hope to stumble across something here sooner than later.

most subreddits are only going dark for a couple days Not true, most subreddits are going down for as long as it takes for the reddit admins to change their mind (AKA forever)

I am still lurking on reddit, while using Lemmy. Frankly, Lemmy is pre-Eternal September, so everyone is nice and the community is cool. But reddit is still a massive repository of info. I think once we hit July and my 3PA goes offline, i will be mostly on Lemmy. Suspect this will be the case for most lemmings.

I won't be back to reddit. I had enough of their BS.

This has been the push I’ve needed to leave. I hope to stay away. I spent too much time there doomscrolling and hope Lemmy’s format prevents me from that waste of my time.

Not planning on going back. I very much prefer open software. Funny that if none of this API nonsense happened I might have never heard of lemmy. Glad to be here.

My only hope is that some more of the communities I enjoyed on Reddit move here, in some fashion.

Done with the R. Will miss it some but already am doing other things like reading and learning chess.

Probably most refugees will go back but hopefully not a so small minority will continue to use Lemmy or only Lemmy.

Probably a second wave will migrate at the beginning of July because I don't think that 2 days of "abstinence" will change to much.

I think all we need is a killer app like RIF or Sync or Apollo

I honestly think a lot of PPL will move to reddit, but I'm staying, lemmy's better for discussion

Personally, I am not one to 'choose' so much. I don't feel the need to delete my Reddit or Facebook accounts....

However, I haven't used Facebook for quite a long time - except to contact via messenger a couple of people who only use Facebook AFAIK.

The same can happen to Reddit, if I get more interesting feeds...