Agreed. Previously these blackouts made a difference like against SOPA and non-reddit things, but they fully knew that this would cause backlash and deemed it still worth it. Maybe not this huge of backlash, but they know they're "too big to fail" at this point, people are comfortable.

I full expect this is going to go into effect. I'm hoping in this next month we can build Lemmy up to a decent enough successor so that if people do decide to look elsewhere we can provide them a landing space.

Apollo's dev said 1.5million people use his app. Let's say just 10% decide to stick to their guns and say "I'm leaving Reddit", that's still 150 thousand people who are looking for new communities. That's a ton of people we could bring here.

So I'm evangelizing for people to spin up more instances. Yes, they may be quiet now, but if we take this opportunity where Reddit showed their hand early, we could provide a hell of a landing place come July 1 for a huge chunk of Reddit. It's not going to match them in size right away, but we take this as a moment to start growing.

So start that instance, plug it everywhere, create that niche community. We don't know who may drop by in a few weeks.

Thanks for coming to my motivational speech.