I don’t mean to be pessimistic, bit since most subreddits are only going dark for a couple days, the site will basically be back to normal soon. I wonder how many users here are only here because of temporary outrage and not because they actually prefer Lemmy. I’m curious about people’s outlook on this situation.
To be fair, there’s been a decent amount of content, and the rate of it is getting noticeably higher in the past week I’ve been on here as time goes on.
June 30th is a hard stop date for mobile usage on reddit, tho. I will not down load their app, nor will I start paying a monthly subscription for relay. I’ll use old.redditon browser for some local subs every once in awhile, but it’s not like I really have much of a choice if I don’t want to use the official app. I imagine I’m not alone in that, and I’d guess a lot of the old guard die hards feel the same.
I mean look, I’ve used reddit the same way for about a decade now - shoehorning me into an environment that is multitudes worse just isn’t going to happen. Not to mention - moderating and overall quality is going to nosedive. People are going to go back, but it’s pretty clear at this point that reddit is bleeding to death. Things are going to be rough on the new tech for a year, but it’ll get there. It’s not the first time this has happened