I just saw this post over on r/modcoord which is basically a massive list of subreddits participating in the blackout protest. If I’m being honest I haven’t seen this much anger and coordinated frustration since the era right before the digg exodus.
Assuming more and more subreddits join in, it’s going to send a pretty massive message to the users who interact with a blacked out subreddit. Then I’m trying to imagine what happens if after a massive coordinated blackout, Reddit continue on the current trajectory. Is Lemmy even prepared to handle the amount of potential incoming traffic that API closure could lead to? It’s absolutely bonkers to me that the Reddit team might just stay the course…
If you introduce people to Lemmy, direct them to smaller instances to sign up on.
Only thing I’ll say is you still have to pick carefully cause you’re also picking a mod/admin team.
Not sure I’d say “careful”… more of “don’t get too comfortable”. As the dust clears I’d expect some/many of the new instances to shutdown. Likely due to hitting server resource limits, or admin motivation limits :)
Yeah there’s a bunch. See https://join-lemmy.org/instances and there are several there to choose from.