I don’t see Old Reddit lasting long. They’ve cut beloved features before, and they’re still calling New Reddit a “beta feature”. After they’ve pumped enough resources into developing it, I’m sure they’ll move past the “test” phase and just cut Old Reddit out entirely. That’s probably going to be Lemmy’s next big user surge.
Does Reddit suppress mentioning Lemmy? I remember for a while this past June 2023 there were a lot of auto-deletions for mentioning or linking to Lemmy. I was never clear on who was deleting things and where. I guess linking to the r/Lemmy subreddit (or a fediverse sub) could work as long as the subreddit doesn’t get banned.
This can probably be modeled off the Digg to Reddit transition. Digg made a couple bad decisions in a row and Reddit exploded. Reddit is making a couple potentially bad decisions in a row, so give it a year or two and the fediverse will come around.
Yeah except Digg was a significant competitor to Reddit.
Lemmy is good but not great. Having a crap ton of instances doesn’t matter when people only use the top two, and then both go offline due to lack of redundancy.
If there was some good webclient that fetched from multiple instances and automatically handled a downed instance, it would probably give lemmy much more traction.
Just having multiple instance logins can be such a turnoff for people.
Still I hope it does grow.