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The overwhelming majority of Redditors probably don't really know what the actual issue is, and on the surface, Reddit charging for an API that they've allowed free access to for years probably seems logical. Plus, people are creatures of habit, they'd rather go back to the same website they've been visiting, with the community that they already know, than try to figure out what the heck a Lemmy is.
Do you think there would be use in having a site like upstract.com (the new popurls) that would aggregate the RSS feeds from all Lemmys and people could just browse through popular somewhat curated posts of the day?
I feel like there would definitely be people who would enjoy something similar for Lemmy. I think with the federated nature of Lemmy, 3rd party tools are going to be crucial when it comes to widespread adoption, as I feel like they're going to play a huge role in abstracting the confusing, nerdy parts of federation away from the general public.
I would mildly argue that might be a good thing. The Masses [TM] are what changed reddit from interesting discourse to shitposting trolls. If everybody came here, it would just be more of the same.
So there aren't a lot of people here. But the people who are here make the atmosphere we love. We want more lemmy, with all the open talking. Not beehaw, where apparently they want to remain in a vacuum. They can't exactly, since that's evidently not how defederation works, but they want to. They might as well just go back to reddit.
Keep in mind, this is all my take on what's happening. I'm not completely sure I understand federation and how it works.
I wouldn't be so sure. In multiple subreddits the communities voted to destroy the sub in response of the admins trying to break the blackout (e.g. pics only allowing pics of John Oliver looking sexy, and several subs pulling similar moves).