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I don't think that this will be the reason for another mass migration. Maybe some users will switch but it won't be a significant number
Reddit is going for an IPO after which it will slowly enshittify to oblivion to acquiesce to board demands.
Yeah that's my hope. I don't think many people will switch because of the removal of old.reddit.com, but Reddit will probably become much shittier after going public. Hopefully that will cause more people to switch. It worked with Twitter, some people initially switched when Musk took over, but many other people switched later when the service became worse and worse.
I think a lot more people use old reddit than used 3rd party apps, but there would have been a lot of overlap
I think that it will, potentially worse than the APIcalypse, even if there are less desktop than mobile users. They'd be messing with whatever was left of a sane interface, that even mobile users who don't want the app use. And the alternatives (incl. Lemmy) aren't just a bunch of ghost towns any more, they'd be reaching actual communities instead of a "make your own community" place.
Agree
The migration (if there is one) will happen over a long period of time ... Months or years.
Reddit initially had a huge growth period because there was no competition like it ... there were other platforms but none like Reddit at the time.
Lemmy is on the same path as Reddit but with one difference, it has competition, not just from Reddit but a whole group of new platforms that are like it, or similar to it ... so the community is fractured across Reddit, Lemmy and a bunch of other platforms.
The next two or three years will be an evolutionary period for all these platforms .... this is a bit like the Cambrian explosion (a geologic period where a bunch of new species just appeared everywhere all at once) .... all of them will fight one another and people will migrate one way or another, other factors will come in that we know about (finances, software, bandwidth, censorship, politics) as well as other factors we've yet to know about.
In a few years, some platforms will disappear and die out, others will linger and a few will dominate.
The evolutionary period may last a year or two or it may last longer but it won't happen any time soon and we also don't know what the outcome will be.
Going by past internet history it will be influenced by people's choices but it will also be influenced by corporate interests once they figure out how to monetize something.