Probably when people start actually not being able to use their apps of choice they will more seriously consider switching. Especially since apparently one of the Reddit apps is being ported to Lemmy, will probably take a lot of users with it.
I think most people still on Reddit are just trying to see how bad it actually goes, with the hope that maybe it won't be as and as everyone says it will be. Platform inertia is very strong with any social media and the majority will not be easily convinced to switch to anywhere else.
Personally I'll continue to use reddit after I recompile Infinity for Reddit with my own personal API key. I'm not using the official client. However I'll be more active here
Do you really think there will be a big rush on Lemmy's servers on July 1st? In my opinion most people that wanted to switch to Lemmy/boycott Reddit already did so. The rest will just use the official app or the browser website.
I think there won't be an immediate rush, but I do think there will be a sporadic sine wave of people checking out the place.
Funny enough the best thing people can do is hold off posting memes and then doing it on the 1st of July for maximum engagement.
Thankfully, I don't think Lemmy needs millions of active users to be good. Even currently there's more than enough content for me and I still expect it to grow
Happy to start populating posts with comments so people feel like it's not a graveyard cause posting comments also shits the bed when the servers are overloaded
either we have 2 days left for the people that runs lemmy.world to upgrade their server stuff or we have 2 days left till we get reddit hug of death’d by the refugees
^(granted i wont complain much if the latter occurs since im also a reddit refugee)