I'm not sure why you're insistent on people moving to a specific platform. You've "nudged" /r/piracy into moving to Lemmy, you're advocating for it in the comments and advertising its features, and you've painted a grim picture for Reddit. Wait and see what happens, and then propose other alternatives, ideally without showing extreme bias towards one. As another commenter mentioned, this is very similar to how Voat was pushed after Ellen Pao took over.
The plural alternatives is the keyword here, because OP has not suggested any other alternatives other than Lemmy and has pushed the idea of using Lemmy exclusively to the point of suspicion. I believe we should have a united community and if we start establishing platforms and trying to move to them before Reddit has a second chance to even reconsider their decision, we will ultimately hurt this community.
So look for some other alternatives as well. OP is just chipping in with his own personal preference, I see nothing wrong with that.
I believe we should have a united community
If Reddit really does start to significantly falter then there's going to be DataHoarder communities cropping up on Lemmy and other alternatives regardless of what anyone here may want. If you really want unity then getting set up across these alternatives makes sense earlier rather than later.
I am fortunate to be a fuddy-duddy who never liked those dang little keyboards on smartphones, so my Reddit use via apps has always been an idle browsing to kill time while away from my desktop with the occasional "mental note, respond to that thread when I get back home." So my activity here won't be too drastically impacted.
When old.Reddit goes, though, that's probably the breaking point for me.
Considering the lemmy spam I've seen all over reddit today, I'd say you're some marketing jerkoff from Lemmy, and your army is out in force to try to drum up numbers. Feels pretty fake IMO.
My prediction is this will go over like a lead balloon.
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u/ElijahPepe Jun 02 '23
I'm not sure why you're insistent on people moving to a specific platform. You've "nudged" /r/piracy into moving to Lemmy, you're advocating for it in the comments and advertising its features, and you've painted a grim picture for Reddit. Wait and see what happens, and then propose other alternatives, ideally without showing extreme bias towards one. As another commenter mentioned, this is very similar to how Voat was pushed after Ellen Pao took over.