So I’ve seen a few posts regarding news outlets calling the protests a failure, and I don’t really think that’s the case. The protests have clearly made an impact, especially if the Reddit CEO is willing to oust MODS to reopen subreddits. I truly believe that something has been jump started here on Lemmy, Kbin, and all of the fediverse. What happened on Reddit has simply pushed those already on the fence, or looking for other social media platforms to jump ship. I truly believe the impact is greater than what the media and Reddit in general want us to believe. Something has started here on the fediverse that simply cannot be stopped, all we can do is inform others and show why it’s the future of aggregated news boards and social media.

  • instamat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Not to overstate the obvious, but this isn’t over yet, the third party apps are still operating. If news outlets were doing their job they would stick to the facts instead of making a judgment on the situation by declaring it a failure. The story is still developing and it’s only just beginning.

    • tox_solid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      2 years ago

      Well said. The news outlets calling the protests a failure are making statements that they aren’t qualified to make. Unless you have at least one foot in the fediverse, you really wouldn’t have any way of knowing the extent of this paradigm shift.

      • MiddleWeigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Yea your very right. I wasn’t really super aware of the situation, until I came here on the 11th, and that was on a whim tbh. I’ve since been educated on the implications of this from privacy to politics.

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      Looking at fedidb, the graph has started looking real exponential in the last 48 hours.

      And this is still days before the third party apps actually stop working. The exodus aint even close to peaked yet.

      Edit: dear lord the user count has spiked. We broke 200 000 threadiverse users just a few days ago, and we are about hit 400 000.

      • Teppic@kbin.social
        1·
        2 years ago

        This is true, and for the most part extremely good news… But are also stories circulating about a landslide of bot accounts being created on Lemmy recently so numbers from the last 24h or so may want adjusting down slightly.