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I think the Lemmy userbase stands to gain much, while Reddit Inc probably won’t feel a gut stabbing loss.

I commented similarly elsewhere, but the “power user” content creator types on Reddit actively avoid r/all for being a dumpster fire. This disconnects them from the fact that there is an absolutely massive userbase on Reddit who scroll the frontpage and keep coming back to that low quality content.

When power users threaten with “if we leave who will create content?” they are not understanding that their content isn’t relevant. R/all is full of low quality reposts, and political ragebait. My own original content probably cracked about 4K upvotes at highest. It was never going to go to the frontpage. When I deleted it, frontpage users never noticed.

That kind of content is more fit for smaller spaces that have not become the self perpetuating juggernaut that the Reddit front page is.

Lemmy and other sites will gain the quality from exiting power users, and Reddit Inc won’t feel it in the way they care about.

I guess the question is: Do you care more about having a good online experience and not thinking about Reddit, or about burning Reddit to the ground? Because the later I don’t think happens from an exodus.