It's already run by a far right billionaire, there was an exodus, but a lot of people stayed and backed out on the protests, just caving in instead.

spez can destroy reddit well enough on his own. He's a Musk brown noser.

Reddit is a Nazi site. Musk being worshipped religiously was a whole thing on there. They'd be happy, and I'd hope so--anything to keep conservatism off of Lemmy, and the rest of the fediverse.

When the API changes came in on Reddit it appeared to cause quite a few people to shift to Lemmy, but not that many. I've said this before in other posts but the onboarding experience for Lemmy is awful for your average joe. From what I've read it was the same situation for Mastodon and that is why Bluesky took off instead.

There needs to be a clear concise point of entry for new users to the Fediverse that empowers users to quickly customise what they want to see. Most people don't care about how the Fediverse works and its benefits, they just want to consume content.

If I were technically capable and had the drive to do so I'd create a single onboarding site that would ask the user a few preference defining questions, chuck them on an instance that is relevant and apply some filters so they don't get spammed with anime posts if that isn't their thing. Oh and maybe show a couple of mobile apps.

No. Most of Reddit’s population has proven they don’t care about changes that much more directly affect their user experience. I can’t see a significant portion of them caring about who owns the platform if they don’t care about that.

It depends on what changes they made. Reddit is fairly left-leaning so if they start seeing more right-wing content or racist crap being allowed on the site, it might happen.

People quit X because it allowed notorious racists and neo-Nazis back on the site, and also did dumb stuff like not allowing people to unfollow Elon Musk (it will automatically re-follow him after some time). It also prioritised and propagated right-wing content which, shockingly, left-wing users didn't like.

There will only be an exodus if there is a better alternative than Lemmy/kbin. Remember that twitter was still going strong despite mastodon existing until bluesky won the race and became the new twitter. If reddit somehow manages to collapse one day, most of the people won't go to lemmy because it's already been shown it's not an attractive or equivalent replacement for it, so either something new reddit-like appears or nothing changes.

Reddit already saw the effects of letting rampant political content run wild in the 2016 election, people will comment in subs that do not want their political opinion and engagement becomes very negative fast.

The few open ones try to present themselves as moderate when possible, even if they are anything but.

I cut the umbilicus after getting banned on fake pretexts from rightwing mods. Fuck 'em. And fuck Spez.

I was a highly involved redditor, but now I realize I was being suckered into engagement by ragebait. Now I use Lemmy a bit, and have reclaimed my leisure time to walk, cycle, go to the pub, play music and hang out with family and friends.

No. If the last "exodus" wasn't it, then nothing will change there.

Lemmy is not ready for a more mainstream user base.

Yes