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Definitely not. Before people were migrating from Twitter only just to go back
July 1st is when all the 3rd party apps will start dying. There will probably be an influx of people who weren't paying much attention or were hoping that nothing would really happen that suddenly start looking for an alternative when it affects them directly.
Its also possible that Reddit rows back from the API change (at least temporarily). I hope they do, so that we have a bit more time to get Lemmy ready.
Yeah, I imagine potentially getting a couple extra zeros in the userbase of a still relatively small project in the space of like a month is more than just a little overwhelming. I hope reddit does at least allow more time for the API changes for a whole bunch of reasons, but I'm afraid they might really be planning on killing off third party apps before their IPO later this year.