With Reddit, and perhaps also Twitter. Personally I deleted my accounts on both platforms and came here today, because I feel it was the moral thing to do. And I hope both platforms will burn down, and the new way forward is more community-driven social media instead of capitalist-driven. But realistically I think both will just slowly get worse in terms of quality (well, twitter doesn’t have much quality content for a while now anyway) and muddle through for a while. In the end it could go either way I think? What are your thoughts on where those platforms will end up, realistically?
Lemmy still has many issues preventing it from becoming useable by the average zero-tech knowledge user right now. The way the federation works can still use some work to become more user friendly, the mobile apps need some time to mature, and the servers are getting overloaded.
So realistically, the best case scenario is for Lemmy to hold a considerable amount of users, enough to keep some instances active. That way, the next time Reddit fucks up (and it will happen soon enough), Lemmy will be a viable alternative by then.
So yeah, this isn’t the great migration. The technology just wasn’t ready.