At the time I deleted all my posts, quit reddit and came here. After a while I went back to reddit (mostly to my country's sub) and I noticed a huge difference. It became a lot less organic, bot traffic increased and the content seemed mostly reposts and rage bait. It was a huge change. I truly believe it was a major blow to reddit and the beggining of the end, even if it's not immediately obvious. But I believe in time we will see the API fiasco as the first major exodus.

Lemmy then was a ghost town. In a few minutes you could scroll all the content for the day. But it started growing, and with each major scandal the traffic increased until now, where its potential as competition is starting to become apparent.

It was not for nothing, AT ALL. We won big time, they just masked it for whoever wasn't watching carefully