The final nail in Reddit's coffin dropped today:
Dear User,
We will soon begin rolling out changes to Reddit's User settings. It is getting a refresh that includes changes to ad personalization, privacy preferences, and location settings.
As part of these changes, we are retiring a setting that you have previously turned on that limited how we used your activity from the Reddit platform to personalize ads. We have replaced the setting with a new option to select categories of ads that you may not wish to see.
More details are available in our announcement and help center.
These changes are rolling out starting today and you may see the changes over the next few days.
Users will be tracked with no opt out. Posts may be monetized, which will make content even worse No refund or any type of usable credit for users that spent hundreds on Reddit coins The entire vibe has done a 180° since all these new "positive changes" are rolled out.
Looking at Twitter/X, this won't be the final nail. People stick to the platforms they're on as long as it doesn't directly Negative impacts them too much.
The difference, I think, which may make it easier to switch is that, on Twitter, you follow specific people. On Reddit, you only subscribe to specific communities, many of which have already been replicated in some way on Lemmy. You can't replicate people, though.
Yet.I think you forgot that Mastodon exists. Either that or you simply refuse to mention it because it's so desolate in there.
No, I didn't forget it. It's just that the "specific people" haven't moved over to Mastodon, so people who follow those specific people haven't moved over.
The "specific communities" (or at least the large ones) have moved over or been copied to Lemmy, so it's easier for people who subscribe to those communities to move over.
I understand your point.