It’s worth a try at the very least, and the reddit subs blackout will probably bring a few more people in. But to be realistic it’ll probably be quite hard to start from scratch and to make it back to even a fraction of how big the old aub was.

I’m similarly pessimistic, but also… I want it to happen, so I’m going to engage with it as if it’s going to. I’m sick of the internet being owned by asshole corporations, and I’d love for an alternative to take root. That needs a certain amount of buy-in at the start, and it costs me nothing to try.

Being the second-best at everything means we have a very varied userbase, and that’s a death sentence on Lemmy, where you need 900 separate accounts for each instance. Seriously, the user experience here is so awful it’d be almost unbelievable, if this place wasn’t flush with Linux nerds, who spontaneously burst into flame at the idea of usable UX.

Also, the Reddit sub has like 100k subs. This entire website has like 5k max.