I think more of them will just quit using reddit and not come here either.

When you want to sign up for lemmy, there are questions and questions are friction. That feels easy for us because obviously we did it, we picked an instance, we got our approvals, we’re here, but I’ve seen it firsthand trying to get people to use lemmy and for a lot of types of people that you would want for establishing more variety in communities, that initial friction is more than enough to drive them away.

Reddit doesn’t even make you pick a username, they’ve gone almost as far as you could with making account creation frictionless. If we want to stay in our echo chamber with everyone who thinks that’s not a big deal then someone else who solves that friction is probably going to eventually be the real reddit replacement. Seriously y’all, know it’s been awhile, but people were picking discord as an alternative to reddit to move to instead of lemmy during the apicalypse and they barely even compare.

With all that said though, giving up the idea of Lemmy being a major competitive platform is not the worst thing in the world.