Now that the two day shutting down of many thousands of subreddits is over, what is happening now? How many are remaining closed? Are others just going back to normal? What is the prospects of any significant change happening now?

I've set my pihole to reject reddit.com and I'm committed to using Lemmy, but I do miss the old Reddit.

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[–] Katt@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You may not like my answer but here goes: Time will tell.

Those who have jumped ship indefinitely will build a community here in the Fediverse. Those who miss Reddit too much will return there and use the official app.

By staying you are building something new. It may not be Reddit, and it may never be Reddit. But there are still millions of users who are here to stay and will become a community.

I hope it will not become a "they" vs "us" thing. Both platforms can exist peacefully, the same way Facebook and Twitter coexist.

Perhaps a difference in content style or format will appear in time, which will make people choose one platform over the other. But that's not bad. Competition is healthy.

I'm staying, and I'm curious to see where Lemmy is going. All I can do is contribute to making it a place I want to hang out in.

[–] Aviandelight@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Regardless of who stays and who goes back I fully expect we will see sharing of content with reddit here just like we saw content from Twitter and TikTok over there. I'm not worried in the slightest about "missing" something.

[–] lynny@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hate to be that person, but the lemmyverse has about 160k people as of this morning. If you include Mastodon it's millions, but they aren't likely to interact as much with lemmy users.

[–] CaptManiac@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Seriously? Where do you get this number? I believe the lemmy.world admin said they had 100k users yesterday.

[–] lynny@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If they said that then it changes things. I'm going off this tracker

https://the-federation.info/platform/73

It could just be lagging behind whatever lemmy.world mentioned, things are moving so fast that a few hours can make a world of difference.

You're giving me some more hope.

[–] CaptManiac@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm sure I have misremembered. No one's near the 100k number.

I think it's interesting that despite lemmy.world having less users than lemmy.ml it has way more active users. Something to do with improved stability?

[–] skillissuer@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

of which some 80k are new, and of which some 20k are counted as active. not great, not terrible, we'll see what becomes out of this

[–] DarkSpoon@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

I saw the 100k number yesterday too being attributed to an instance but I think that was counting all users across all Lemmy instances not just lemmy.ml or .world.