this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2023
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I agree things are just now starting to intensify on Reddit. If and when they go through with those changes will be when some people start to wake up. The ones that don’t see it then probably never will lol.
Yeah, I’ll admit until a few days ago I had never heard about lemmy. Wasn’t until I was seriously seeking something other than Reddit did I come across this site. It reminds me some of the twitter exodus after musk bought it. Lots of new interest in mastodon like almost overnight. I’m sure some of it died down due to mastodon not being *exactly * like twitter and it does have a bit of a learning curve but surprisingly mastodon continues to grow at a pretty decent pace. I imagine a bit of a similar situation here.
It was the same with Firefox for me. As soon as Chrome announced The adpocalypse, everyone wanted to jump ship from Chrome. Forget what happened that made me switch about 6 months before that but I tend to catch on to stuff like this earlier than most.
My only hope and worry is that the devs and admins are aware and prepared for the big wave of new users. Especially this instance and those featured as recommended in joinlemmy. Mastodon also went through the same thing but for some reason I think they had some more time to mature before that.
Ive already been experiencing some stability issues and this volume is nothing compared to what could possibly be coming as early as next month.
im on the discord for beehaw and they admins are aware of whats going to happen and are currently trying to best prepare for it