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During the protest I've seen several people saying they didn't even know 3rd party apps existed, I believe we seriously underestimate the amount of people who don't care about anything as long as they get their daily "dose" of memes.
Many power users have moved already, more will follow, but the masses? Reddit is infested with reposting bots but most people don't even notice, they have so much content in there that it will last them for years, even if all content creators left, not to mention AI.
That's not to say reddit will never die, but I believe it'll take a much longer time than we think.
I think that the truth is in the middle. It won't be quick, but people will slowly notice the quality of posts decreasing and no longer being interesting. Once that happens, people will start complaining, and then leaving. If they'll cone here...and if we WANT them to come here... isn't clear, but I think they'll start leaving.
I honestly don't care. If we make this thing here work, let the bots have reddit. As long as the old discussions aren't deleted, it can be tiktok 2 for all I care (if this here growth into what it seems to grow into).
So for me, while I knew of the 3PAs I didn't start using them until the uproar. And when I did switch, I was like "how the hell did I stay on the official app for so long!"