When the user revolt ends—if it ever does—Reddit’s community won’t ever be the same.

“They’re shooting themselves in the foot,” Mir says. “The content of the users is what makes the platform worth visiting. These hosts kind of run into this confusion that their hosting is the reason people are going there, but it’s really for the other users on the medium.”

  • mim@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 years ago

    It wasn’t something inherent about them that suddenly increased the userbase. It was an external event.

    I agree.

    However, we are the users that didn’t get bothered by Lemmy’s the interface, but were bothered by Huffman enough to leave.

    Most people won’t leave their comfort zone unless the external event is much larger than this. If all the mods suddenly left and reddit just became a spam-filled dumspter fire. That would affect reddit’s usability enough that would make Lemmy’s UX shortcomings enough for the average person to bear.