Thousands of subreddits chose to go dark in an ongoing protest over the company's plan to start charging certain third-party developers to access the site’s data.
Wow. Front page of huffpost.com right now. Interesting…
I would expect the big jump to come when people who are barely engaged with this whole thing try to open Apollo or Sync or whatever in a few weeks, seeing it doesn’t work, then spending 5 minutes trying to use the official app before getting frustrated and googling “reddit alternative”
Maybe, but I think people overstate this. Reddit’s desktop UI and official app still confuse and upset me. Frankly the on-boarding to Lemmy is easier if anything
I would expect the big jump to come when people who are barely engaged with this whole thing try to open Apollo or Sync or whatever in a few weeks, seeing it doesn’t work, then spending 5 minutes trying to use the official app before getting frustrated and googling “reddit alternative”
then they’ll come to Lemmy and be just as frustrated with a confusing new architecture, buggy website, and apps in their infancy.
Maybe, but I think people overstate this. Reddit’s desktop UI and official app still confuse and upset me. Frankly the on-boarding to Lemmy is easier if anything