Anecdotal, but reddit is REALLY cracking down on users regarding the protests related to the US/North America tariffs. There is a very murky line as to what reddit corporate wants people to say and not say regarding the protests people are organizing on corporate owned social media because sure.

Same with the inevitable pushback against blocking twitter.

That said: I sincerely doubt it will go anywhere. It took YEARS for people to leave twitter and that was only because a different corporate owned social media, bluesky, had open sign-ups. There is no alternative to reddit.

So we might see a small burst of newbies on lemmy. They’ll likely get driven away by the usual suspects.

I was on Maatodon never twitter.

I used Reddit for a time but left long aho, found Lemny about 12 mths ago. I think it’s awesone.

My gripe is with commercialisation of the intrenet, I’m of an age (old) that it offered the promise of a chocolate cake and delivered us a turd burger. Much of the reason for that is lock in on commerilsed scum baggery. I don’t blame the shit balls like Musk, Spez or Zuck for that (if it wasnt them it would be sone other shit stain) , I blame the 80% of users for normalising it all.

Susan Sontag was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10% of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that 10% is merciful, no matter what, and that the remaining 80% could be moved in either direction” —Kurt Vonnegut

Disclosure: I literally just moved here from Reddit.

I only got started on Reddit a few months ago, personally I’m moving here because the US has now clearly exited the world’s democratic camp, so I want to derisk/decouple from US services and products.

Learning now that Reddit management is supportive of the autocrats taking over the US only confirms my choice to GTFO of there.