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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That's the thing - your typical user doesn't need to have disdain towards a platform, or the drive of switch, in order to drop it. Just show him enough content that he's uninterested in (let's call it "junk") and he'll simply stop interacting with it, and some will eventually find their way into platforms filling a similar niche. That applies to both Twitter and Reddit.

However, if my reasoning is correct (I don't know), Spez' actions will create proportionally far more junk in Reddit than Musk's actions in Twitter, due to the demographics that each pissed off, and the role of people vs. content in each platform being different. This difference in roles also affect the cost of leaving - there's a small barrier to leave Twitter (actual relationships), but no similar barrier in the content-centric Reddit.

I would be surprised if Lemmy fills those shoes.

I don't know if Lemmy will fill those shoes, but I think that it has a better chance to do so than Mastodon filling Twitter's shoes.