We are all here and sort of excited for trying a new platform now that Reddit have turned from bad to worse. Still, I have a good deal of dejavu from the 2015 AMAgeddon. Back then plenty of subreddits also locked down in response to Victoria getting fired as manager for the AMAs. Back then myself and many other redditors swore we were done with the site and tried to goto other sites. I think Empeopled was the main choice back then and it was fun there for a little while. And then everyone came back and Reddit only grew with millions of users until today.
Is this time going be different? Is the blackout bigger and more widespread this time? I am thinking the big difference is that this is has more direct consequences with many (and very active) users losing their apps and tools, but I am not sure it will really matter much in the end. I am hoping Lemmy will get momentum, but I also see myself and many others saying the same things about Reddit as in 2015.
That time it was a moral stand. This time it's a practical one. A lot of people simply won't be able to use Reddit the way they like to starting next month, and that's a much bigger deal than disagreeing with an employee's firing. I certainly didn't expect the blackout to have any effect on the Reddit management, and I doubt too many other people did either, but it helped to kick-start the growth of communities like this one so that when Reddit does go down the toilet starting next month there'll be somewhere else to go.