T-minus 24 hours

This absolutely feels like republicans setting themselves up for the "red wave" in 2020 that never materialized.

Yeah I feel like anybody who was gonna come to lemmy already did
- While I want to agree with this, there have been a number of people saying they will stop using Reddit when the changes come into force on July 1.
- There will probably be another wave. Simply for the fact that moderation bots are going to stop functioning tomorrow and Spam is just going to go through the roof. It all depends on how fast Reddit can get a handle on that situation.
- Nope, I totally missed the boat on this one. Just found refuge this morning.
Yeah I don't think there will be a significant drop in reddit users however I think they'll be a noticeable drop in quality posts and comments. I think with many older gen redditors and experienced mods jumping ship there's going to be somewhat of a void left in the wake.
- Content already has been dropping in quality slowly. A few days ago people were talking about subs up voting Facebook level memes to the frontpage.
And just like then, I will expect the worst and still be pleasantly surprised if the best somehow materializes

I've seen people that use third party apps and had no idea about them going away. Let's see if it effects Reddit in any meaningful way.

I sort of hope it does. But also don't think it will in any meaningful way
- The early adopters matter far more than the raw numbers suggest. There is no long tail for content creation and curation. Ongoing exsanguination will intensify. Prognosis is poor for this patient.

I am 99% lurker and I joined a few weeks ago. I've been patiently waiting to see what happens with the amount and type of content after an assumed bump in activity when 3rd party apps go dark.

I was an Alien Blue user for years before Reddit purchased it, then I was using Sync (and will be again soon with Sync for Lemmy). Reddit is essentially dead to me without 3rd party apps.

Same
Same here. I've jumped between various apps but ended the last year on Sync after their major UI overhaul. I don't plan on going back to Reddit due to the API issues. Looking forward to Sync for Lemmy!

We'll be celebrating a lot of cake days on next year's June and July

And every June/July going forward lol

Joined earlier today

Welcome to the Lemmy side. We have freedom from corpos and stupid descisions. Oh, and cookies ;)
- Your instance has cookies!? Mine just has stupid science and nature themed communities...

Brace yourselves ladies gentelman and everyone in between. It will be hard.

This has been him for the past 3 or 4 weeks

It would be so wonderful if this is the last reddit hug of death

I’m off Reddit fully but I don’t think it’ll be an implosion. With a few other apps striking deals, some will switch to those while others will stick with the main. I think mostly OGs and people more comfortable with tech are the ones who made the switch.

I agree. Lemmy takes a bit to get used to. I think if content starts to get worse on Reddit, more people will get bored and switch. Hopefully by then those early kinks in lemmy will have been cleared out.
- We first need to generate some content so new users will find information and enjoyment on Lemmy, otherwise there is no use for the platform, information got me on reddit in the first place, now information will keep me on Lemmy, I will try to generate some too.

Buh bye bacon ☹️

Will miss bacon and all the third party clients Spez killed..
Deleted my account today and uninstalled RIF. They'll be getting nothing from me.
- Strange feeling seeing the rif app missing from my home screen, it has been there for over a decade...
This is what made me come over here. So far seems like it has a lot of promise to be a great alternative

the real test is will Lemmy attain sustainable growth after this fiasco? or it is just temporary?

I think the hard-core redditers - those who aren't just using reddit to find the best burger when they visit Houston - will stay here, or have more of a presence.

At least that is my hope - "If you want Lemmy to be Reddit, just go back to Reddit." As it were.

Casual redditers don't even know there are non-offical mobile apps.

Too many implosions recently. I wonder what gives??

Maybe they think the money they can make from companies using their APIs to train AI is worth tanking user satisfaction with their platform

Good for us. I wish this happens to snapchat, facebook, Instagram, whatsapp and even google (little hard for google) Btw I'm already on pixelfed instead of Instagram.

I'm on pixelfed, but without any of my friends on there, there's not much to it. But the appeal of Reddit is not that your friends are there, so the move to Lemmy or kbin is easier.
- I quit Instagram so if any of my friends wanna see my pics, I'm on pixelfed. None of my friends are on pixelfed. Also, all they use is YouTube and Instagram, they don't know what reddit is, never knew myspace, tumblr.

I was born for this momento

digg vibes

I don't think we really know at this point what will happen or how fast reddit will fall. What we do know is third party app users will no longer be able to use the site. And that it will be harder for users with disabilities to effectively use reddit.

I think the mass influx from Reddit has already occurred. What we can hope for is a continual slow migration from here on out. I don't think July 1 is gonna see any huge uptick in Lemmy accounts. Anyone who cares has been well aware for some time.

Apollo has been deleted, Reddit app remains deleted. Memmy has taken Apollo’s spot. Feels good.

RIF stopped working today, so here I am. I for one, welcome my new Lemmy overlord instances

Yeah. Not bothering to install the regular Reddit app now that RIF is gone
Here now after baconreader is dead.

12 years down the tube.

Went on the apple sub yesterday and majority of people on there didn’t give a shit about the API changes and were calling the Apollo developer a whiny multi millionaire or something. Feels like the general tone has shifted a lot.

That feels like self-selection bias to me. The most vocal people with opinions leaning the other direction, have already left the platform.
I also wonder if the Reddit admins might have started some kind of marketing campaign to build the consensus in their favor of their own platform. There have been several instances of third parties using social media to do that kind of things, the hivemind makes it easy enough that the word of mouth is going to spread when it's high enough on the main subs.

That might be granting them more PR credit than they've shown in the last few weeks, though.

Just random thoughts: What would be your thoughts on a day-of moratorium on registrations? Give everyone a day or two to think on it then open it back up?

As long as we remember to be patient and gentle it should be ok

I'm ready for them when they get here!

I moved here a month ago knowing that this is just the latest in aggregation/news/forum site upheavals. I learned to not wait back when Digg was crashing out and everyone was moving to this small site called "Reddit" at the time.

I came from other sites to Digg and someday I'll likely migrate away from lemmy, but this is a good home for now and I'm very thankful for the federation hosters to keep us up and running.