Dunno if you were around then, but people on Digg acted the same way toward Reddit before Digg crashed.
If we stay on this platform and continue to grow and create content, then when Reddit again does something to annoy its years (they probably will), we can be here to take advantage.
The downside is that every great growth in users will affect the platform/site culture, not always for the better. It depends on the users and the size of the migration.
I haven't noticed.
However, something I have noticed about people is that they justify their behaviour.
So if they buy a Toyota and Dad has a Nissan, he'll ask them why they didn't buy a Nissan... If they buy a Nissan and Dad has a Toyota, they'll similarly be able to fight for their corner.
What people don't do is to buy a Nissan and say 'sure, I bought the dogshit car because I'm stupid'.
Something that's true is that Reddit aggregated a lot of behaviour on internet, and so it's obviously true that Lemmy cannot compete with that - not even close. For many use-cases, there are no viable alternatives.
The best thing that will come of this is that people become aware that they have alternatives to Youtube/Google, Reddit, Facebook, Chrome etc.
People need to work to build an independent internet and not allow this shit to happen.
They need to stop signing TOS agreements that they can't even read through or comprehend.
That's what it felt like for me after I posted anything lol. But is it bots, is it Reddit themselves?
They could be legit users, FWIW, and just not understanding Lemmy enough to know what an "instance" is. Nowhere else on the internet (except Mastodon) is it a "thing" to have different instances of the same site iteracting.
Half of my comments are about Lemmy not being ready yet, or a viable alternative to Reddit. It's not a "big lie". I'm currently relying on the hover-over text to know where the icons are, brcause they're not loading for some reason. I'm confident that decentralised social media will never take off, brcause the point of social media is to bring people together rather than stick them on different servers.
Bruh you know your name is fucking snoo, right? Might wanna figure out your own loyalties lol
No I haven't noticed that cause I don't go on reddit anymore. I don't give a shit what people are saying on reddit. I don't give a shit about reddit at all, it's over. That's kinda why we're all here.