this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2023
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I don't think all that many redditors are moving to Lemmy. Judging by the stats on join-lemmy, there are only several thousand monthly Lemmy users, which is nothing compared to reddit which had tens of millions daily users
When I joined lemmy.ml and beehaw.org, the stats on join-lemmy.org were just over 100/month.
Now it's at 1K/month for beehaw and 1.6K/month for lemmy.ml
There's also a HUGE list now, where as when I joined last week there were maybe 8?
Small numbers, ya, but Reddit still hasn't done anything. I am sure July 1st will bring a huge wave of people who are still sticking with Reddit since apps still work.
I feel like reddit power users are the only ones who might switch, normal people simply won't care. However, power users are already well aware of the coming changes, and have likely already looked for alternates by this point.
Ive seen so many reddit posts on where people are like "what's wrong with the official reddit app, it's all I've ever used"... Lemmy is much better than the official reddit experience - the issue is most niche communities that exist on Reddit have ~1-5 subscribers here, makes it kind of a hard sell.
Personally i'd way rather be in a small community filled with frequent commenters and posters than a big one where all you see is reposts and ads, however.
I mean, power users make most interesting content, so i can easily imagine regular users just naturally getting, like, bored.