Too much focus on Reddit drama threads and not enough on actual content (I am guilty of this too). I think as the drama passes it will liven up in the popular topics/magazines. Reddit needs to stop pulling the trigger on their foot gun first.

The vast majority of users on an aggregation site like this are just lurkers. Like, the vast, vast majority. Scroll, read, updoot, move on.

tbf, there are more active communities that people might be going to on other instances

Well post something then lol. The individual communities on each instance may seem small but the posts should still be visible on all the federated sites in the verse.

It remains to be seen how many of the nearly 200K across kbin+lemmy stay active. A huge number of people will have created an account during the blackout with no intention of ever returning. They’re still counted as active now (because they just created an account a few days ago), but they won’t be considered active a month from now.

Unfortunately, unless we get more “normal” content over here, people will continue to go inactive. The only threads that really get any traction are the posts complaining about Reddit and the meta posts asking how everything works over here.

The real test will be July 1. For now, RIF/Apollo/etc. still work as they did for the past decade+, so people are still going to Reddit out of habit. Hopefully, the community here can grow enough in the next couple of weeks to appear viable to new users looking to transfer when their app of choice stops working.