Austin-Philp

Yeah - even if they back pedal (as I still think is likely) it’s super clear at this point that reddit is just interested in milking it’s users for every cent until they can IPO.

Spez literally just said in the AMA “We’ll continue to be profit-driven until profits arrive.”

RemindMe was super useful

And that people are generally pretty stubborn about their social media these days. While the migration to Lemmy has been significant, it’s still a tiny proportion of reddit’s total users. Most people just want to see their feed and don’t care overly much about the specifics of how it’s run (even if they should) - and even those who do will often put up with a lot of BS to stay in their comfort zone.

Look at Twitter - you’ve still got tons of people who despise Elon and his changes to Twitter who are using the platform every day. It’s been half a year now with things only getting worse and these people are still clinging to the platform because it’s where they’re comfortable. If anything, Elon showed that you can give your community some serious abuse while still maintaining high user counts

People see that they have the highest user count and gravitate towards it. Most people don’t really get how federation works, so they worry about getting “stuck” on an instance with no one to talk to