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Yes, exactly my thoughts as well. I’ve noted the following: I started exploring options and landed on Lemmy as many of us did around the time the API changes were announced At that time, there were a lot of test posts here and loads of Reddit complaints. It was challenging to find real content, but it was clear the community and interest was growing.

I continued to open various Lemmy apps over Reddit, but still peaked into my Reddit feed periodically and noticed that Reddit was definitely still alive, with the occasional flare up that made browsing annoying. Not much different than when any other viral topic would take over the top posts everywhere, but more regular and less amusing from an entertainment point of view. Those days I had no problem coming to Lemmy almost all day. But that left me with using Lemmy more and more frequently.

The last couple days, I’ve found that Lemmy is still growing and becoming much more interesting to browse and view, though I definitely see the added complexities and early nature of apps as a limiting factor for the general use at the moment. So going to Reddit now seems to be largely filled with lower effort posts as most users that haven’t migrated are those that felt it was too much work to join a Lemmy community and get reestablished (in my opinion). However, there is still definitely a functional and lively community over there. At least for the time being.

Whenever I check in on Reddit, I am still using third party apps. Those apps will go dark July 1, so if that actually happens, I likely will stop checking in. And I have no idea how many else will be doing the same.