Reddit is doing age verification now?? lmao
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I think most who would leave have already left.
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Probably not large scale, but definitely a spike. We've been seeing more signups lately due to the US talking shit about Canada.
We publish some graphs here https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/data/lemmy/users
Reddit is 80%+ bots so I don't expect those accounts to shift platforms. But I do imagine some former reddit users will trickle over as it continues to alienate its fanbase with stupid choices like getting rid of old reddit.
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Hopefully. I am already on both sites (though on reddit I hardly ever start new threads and only use it on desktop) and would love getting opportunities to talk about all the topics here that I currently talk about only on reddit.
It is so incredible. I used to think the main threat to a free and open Internet was copyright. Then in the mid-2010s the talking points against it shifted to misinformation and hate speech.
Now it's age verification? How did we get here?
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not if they dont hear about it
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At least for me, I'm now here 100%.
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My guess is, all NSFW communities will see a surge.
Not sure what you mean by exodus. I “left” Reddit for Lemmy, but Lemmy doesn’t do what I want, so it doesn’t replace Reddit. I went back to Reddit. Now I’m on both, for different reasons.
I don’t have any issues with bots on Reddit, but all the subs I’m on have very small numbers of users. The “equivalent” Lemmy communities are ghost towns where people haven’t made a single post in 2 years.
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Simply speaking. No
Lets be real, while many do care, it isn't going to be a "I need to leave the platform" level care.
Furthermore, the people impacted by it, may also not actually be in the majority either. For example they are doing similar to how discord is doing their age verification, where they are using existing metrics to infer your age without hard requiring it. Reddit has stated that said metrics include account age, email provider and topics you navigate.
Unless they have a super heavy handed way of doing this, I doubt anything super meaningful like another mass exodus like how the API issue was will happen.
they already aggressively starting to force a login popup, and also trying to redirect old reddit to new reddit. there ultimate goal is to make people use the APP.
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Only if the affected users know about the existence of lemmy, and many of them likely do not. If you happen to still be using reddit, you should use it to shill lemmy, hopefully in a diversity of subreddits so that lemmy doesn't become any more of an echo chamber than it already is.
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It'll be both good and bad if it happens.
While it'll be great for the threadiverse to have more growth it will inevitably put us in the crosshairs of bot farms and AI data farmers.
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There will always be one more thing.
Every time it happens, the stream of people becomes less ... pleasant on average. Not to say there aren't still good people that might come over, but the people that come at this point are pretty accepting of toxicity and are more likely to spread it.
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I expect reddit will roll it out slowly and stop if they're losing too many users. If they actually follow through and impose age "verification" on everyone it'll be a bigger exodus than anything seen before — so they probably won't.
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I wonder if accounts that are 18 years old will also be required to be verified.
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I can’t wait for another wave of posters who refer to “this administration” and numbered amendments regardless of topic or international context.
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Feels like I've been here forever but however old my lemmy account is is how long I've been off reddit.
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