I’ve seen many comments and posts regarding the API fiasco on Reddit, with the claim that there will be a huge influx of users when that happens. I’m all for it, but I find it hard to believe that the average or even above average user will make the effort to switch.

  • Mike D.
    10•1 year ago

    I believe the user count will increase similar to Mastodon’s when Muskrat took over Twitter. There will be a large increase the first few weeks and then it will slow down. People will join and leave Lemmy but a good number will stay.

    If your not familiar with Mastodon it is the Fedeverse’s answer to Twitter.

      • citrusface
        7•1 year ago

        Could you please elaborate and source your claims regarding the restoration of free speech?

        Also please explain to me what must be your detailed knowledge of Twitters finances and bloated staff.

        I’m very interested to hear.

          • R0cket_M00se
            3•1 year ago

            If the platform runs with a much smaller team, just as well as it did before, then the previous team was bloated.

            “IF”

            It doesn’t run just as well, it’s been running like shit, but you probably don’t even use it so how would you know? You just hear fox news saying it’s running great and you haven’t the slightest clue if that’s fucking correct so you just assume it is.

          • @Something_Complex
            1•1 year ago

            Look there’s a difference between freedom of speech and endangerment of you fellow humans. That’s why libertarianism couldn’t work (and didn’t in their experiment on a village in the middle of the us, bears broke the system).

            I you are on a plain and you have someone screaming they are going to blow it up, or that they need to open the airplane door.

            1causes mass panic

            2 we don’t know if he trully intends to do it

            3 I can infact say what I want, but I try to put a piece of logic benfore and I’m ok with being proven wrong.(Can you say the same regarding extremists?)

      • R0cket_M00se
        4•1 year ago

        That’s a weird way to say he ruined the site by letting bots run amok (looks like those jobs were valuable after all which is why he had to rehire half of them back), and made paid verification a thing thus ruining the concept.

        So now every Nigerian scammer is “Coca Cola” with a blue check mark, yeah the system’s really “functional.”