Reddit has decided to run another edition of r/place in mid July for some unimaginable reason.
https://sh.itjust.works/post/1387534
It seems to me that it would be stupid to not at least attempt to advertise for Lemmy given the perfect opportunity. Many have expressed concerns about giving reddit more traffic, but a few thousand users is less than a rounding error to reddit. However, getting a few thousand more redditors to move to Lemmy would be great for us.
Hopefully I can get a few sh.itheads to help in this noble endeavor. If not, at least I tried.
99.999% of people never left reddit in the first place... this is our chance to get some of those people that either never heard about Lemmy or were discouraged by the complexity of the whole thing the first time around, but might be primed to make the leap now
Are we sure about that? Many people exclusively used third party apps and wouldn't use it otherwise
It's too early know right now. We do know that a very small percentage actually came to Lemmy. My assumption is that most of the people who cared enough to stop using reddit would have looked for an alternative, and other alternatives like Tildes and Squabbles are much smaller than even Lemmy.
But I suppose its possible that a significant portion of users simply stopped using reddit without a replacement. I doubt it, but we don't know for sure.
I know a lot of people just use TikTok and Instagram and don't care to find an alternative, but I don't know what that number scales to outside of my personal circles
Yes I was also thinking of this scenario, which I believe is quite common. But those people also probably didn't spend too much time on reddit in the first place