The average joe probably didn’t even use a third party client for Reddit and absolutely is not affected by the API changes. They’re going to browse reddit as if nothing happened.
@BackStabbath yes & no. Reddit had quite a few highly technical spaces.
We instituted an org wide blacklist of Reddit the other day, so no more redditing over here.
Now to find the fediverse equivalents to sysadmin net admin etc…
Is that a huge issue, though? I always had a feeling that the 3rd party users might be more civil.
No, I don’t think it’s an issue. Lemmy certainly doesn’t need most of Reddit to migrate. But if the number of users is a lot less, there will also be much less content. For me, the ideal scenario is to have a decent numbers of users, but nowhere close to Reddit’s (I’m almost totally sure that it won’t actually replace Reddit for the general public but I’m just hoping for enough users to make it a nice community with enough content).
I haven’t tried Mastadon, but I get your point. But I’m sure people would be confused about the instances and stuff. When you really want to try it out, then you typically have patience and see how things work. A lot of people just simply don’t care enough to try this when there was no issue with Reddit for them in the first place. I am trying to shift because I’m annoyed at Reddit, but someone who isn’t really has no reason to.
