Honestly - and it pains me to say it - I don’t think so.
Anyone who was really going to leave Reddit has probably already moved over here (or somewhere else) to start posting and building their new community, everyone who is left doesn’t care enough about what they’re doing to make the move.
I don't think it's going to be a mass migration, but I do think there are a lot of people that are just using Reddit until the 30th, then they'll start looking at other options. That's kind of what I'm doing, but I'm dipping my toes into other sites a little early.
If you’re right. I’m perfectly happy already with the new communities, and the conversations thus far. At this rate I feel there’s already enough to build a smaller quality community.
We will get more over the next week and month as people drop the "official" app due to various reasons of it not being good enough. By the end of July everyone will have probably moved and found their new homes on Fediverse, reddit app, tildes, or other site.
Yeah, I feel like there’s more likely to be a bigger exodus of third-party app users to the “official” Reddit app (which was itself a third-party app at one point before it was bought up) than there is to be users to Lemmy or Tildes or wherever. I think a lot of casual Reddit users just don’t care about this whole thing and they’ll just use whatever. Over time they’ll migrate (assuming content creators also move on).
Yes. I'll use old.reddit/.compact (I think they removed that feature, I think I'll use some chrome extension on kiwi browser to get a usable old.reddit interface) together with the official app. I already had to use the official app for chats but never really used it extensively and definitely don't want to in the future.
I'm on reddit just for a few specific subreddits and there aren't here on Lemmy unfortunately, I'll stay on reddit no matter what. I'll still lurk here for communities that have alternatives on Lemmy. But the relatively small user base on Lemmy doesn't help for an enjoyable surfing experience.
Oh, I need to add, Jerboa is more buggy than official reddit app at the moment. I think I need to use the website instead
Well, I am pretty nerdy but I am not an early adopter. I think I signed up 2 weeks ago and didn't start using it until a couple days ago. This place has been around for a while. I don't early adopt anything. I wait and see, like a stingy old nerd.