That can mean bad things for the servers and people who administrate them. I believe most of them isn't prepared for high traffic spike - even though Lemmy is fairly lightweight, huge amount of new user would mean de facto DDoS.
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2023
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Probably there would be a spike compared to the normal number of new daily signups, but I don't see millions of people coming. At least it's somewhat partially depends on mod decisions - While some have succumbed to Reddit's threats and will probably remain there, others have explicitly stated in /r/ModCoord that they fully intend to quit. Probably some subreddits will have suckers willing to volunteer even knowing how Reddit doesn't give a damn about them, while other might remain unmoderated. According to ModCoord a few large subreddits have been closed or archived due to all mods leaving and nobody replacing them (at least not yet). If some of the said mods decide to come here and post a pinned message in the old subreddit with a link before restricting it then it might bring new people.
Doubtful, to be honest.
Most who have used 3rd Party apps have already migrated or found some other solution. Those who don't care are still using the official app, and, to be frank, despite what everyone says, the quality content hasn't decreased by that much.
It's still half Twitter and TikTok reposts, and one-fourth 'advice subs' (creative writing), like it's been for several years before this debacle.
Hell, maybe this is a good thing in some ways, where that kind of content can hopefully fall by the wayside over here, instead of choking communities out like it does in Reddit. (I have over 50 popular subreddits on Boost filtered out to avoid this stuff, and it's still not enough to get rid of all of it)
I’ve been thinking that too. Most of the users who care enough probably have heard of the whole thing by now and prepared for it in whatever way makes sense for them. I think the very small number that are left using third-party apps care little enough to either reluctantly move to the official Reddit app (that’s what I used to use, I didn’t even know there were other apps), or they might even care little enough that they’ll just stop browsing Reddit altogether because their interest in it doesn’t match the effort they’d have to do to adapt to the new world in any way.
I think there will be some highly-motivated enough individuals who might have been living under a rock, and we’ll have a little bump, but probably not very big.
I would imagine most people planning to head here already have accounts, activity will no doubt go up though.
As the weeks go on though more will find this place and I'm sure there will be more surges to come.
Interesting to see how it goes.
I believe the user count will increase similar to Mastodon's when Muskrat took over Twitter. There will be a large increase the first few weeks and then it will slow down. People will join and leave Lemmy but a good number will stay.
If your not familiar with Mastodon it is the Fedeverse's answer to Twitter.
No. There are good things to look at on Reddit, and effectively nothing around here. This place is incredibly barren and will continue to be unless creative people show up to populate it... which they won't when it's a nightmare just to get an upvote to stick,
What do you mean by a nightmare just to get an upvote to stick?
I'm on PC and my upvotes...well..don't always stick too. I have the hide-read posts option on and love upvoting to remove stuff i've looked at. But upon going back to the main page by clicking the logo. I have to upvote again, then refresh again for it to vanish. Weird.
Maybe they mean specific to Kbin where currently only boosts raise your score (and most people will boost rarely) so it's a lot easier to lose score (even from 1 reduce on a favored comment, 1000 papercuts).