“If a moderator team unanimously decides to stop moderating, we will invite new, active moderators[…]. If […] at least one mod wants to keep the community going, we will respect their decisions and remove those who no longer want to moderate from the mod team.”
Yeah, moderate your empty sub, because all your content creators have moved here.
Bets on how long it will take google to realise that site:lemmy should index the whole fediverese to keep their top spot?
That is drastically overselling our success here.
Reddit will survive this. It’ll be a worse Reddit, with slightly more reposts, slightly less OC. Some percentage will move on, and a percentage of that percentage will move here.
If we manage to build communities that have enough people to be engaging, that is a win. We will not kill Reddit, and anyone who believes that needs to readjust their expectations.
I wholeheartedly agree with your statement. But I believe in small steps. I haven’t been on Reddit since the API announcement on /r/Apollo. I won’t be back, I absolutely love the idea of a platform that isn’t owned by someone - in the same way I love an open source project.
Indeed, do not undersell the longterm success of this. Also many gloss over of how unrealiable reddit is as a business towards third parties considering annual contracts in the form of subscriptions for their apps. That was a scummy, if not scammy move, no matter the legalities of it.
Yeah “all the creators moved here” is a bit optimistic
There’s probably some content creators leaving, but Reddit will fill the gaps with meme bots and unofficially sponsored posts.
Um yeah I don’t think that the ones geared towards casuals and super niche enthusiast subs like /r/MachineEmbroidery/ and /r/baduk will migrate with the already low amount of traffic they generate on Reddit… Reddit needs to do something on the level of being SUPER DRASTIC to let that happen. The most important thing about Reddit is that it’s convenient to browse, they have to make it super inconvenient like imagine every subreddit blacking out (and exceptions don’t count) then users will flock elsewhere (but most likely Twitter and Facebook again because no end users are going to bother learning what “the fediverse” is when signing up for an account is already a huge hurdle for them. The only way to make an Lemmy strive is that they can offer something UNIQUE that nothing on Reddit can. Maybe let’s say there’s an upcoming video game, and the wiki makers/number crunchers of that game decide to host their content and research on Lemmy… and do not allow Reddit to repost there (but linking is important in order to refer them to Lemmy)… like that we can have some semblance of hope.