Is there any reason why people think this? Said more in-depth in another comment, but I think the influx happened weeks ago with possibly more people on a wider time-scale or because of some other factors.
Who would wait to join until the last day and why would they? It's not like they need to delete their old account before signing up here.
It's because very suddenly, users of RIF and Apollo are going to be locked out of Reddit, and people think they'll migrate here, rather than going to the official Reddit mobile software (as a RedReader user, I've switched over), or going to Facebook/Instagram.
It's a fundamental question about society: which is more prevalent, fear or laziness? They had no reason to move until their program stopped working. Now, it's not going to work anymore. But I don't believe we'll see a massive adoption wave. People are still confused about the nature of the Fediverse, and they're too scared by their ignorance to get over it and bite the bullet.
Unfortunately, those that do take the plunge will find that most Fediverse client software is in beta, or less than fully functional. Laziness will keep them away. Fear will push them to other monolithic platforms. So my thought is that it's going to drive traffic to Meta's properties for the time being, at least at this time.
I don't get it because I'm lazy but also Solidarity Forever. Also, I signed up as soon as I saw Kbin has Oauth.
That and the continuation of laziness. I don't see that person losing access and immediately moving here (when they had weeks to investigate that choice leisurely before being forced). I think you're right, other platforms that fill the void (even if in a different way) seem more likely. Ones that they already use.
Ugh, I need to remember to move over to kbin before commenting on this magazine. My Lemmy (sh.itjust.works) comments never show up here. No idea why, I'll lyk if I figure out.
Anyways, here's my comment:
Very good points, I think people expecting a massive wave of redditors will be disappointed. But it’s not like we need them either, we’ve already got a critical mass of quality users.
It's still out there - waiting. There's a bunch of active servers, and I have Ambassador for Pale Moon installed. I just never have cause to use it instead of Discord anymore. I think that says more about me than IRC.
IRC doesn't have gif support and let's be honest. Emojis might be an optional requirement for some people, but gifs are the foundation of communication for a lot of people these days.
GIF support, no, but I think most clients I've seen have the ability to display Unicode emoticons, which would help for 99% of the image use. As far as GIFs, I guess you'd need to build an IRC client that does the same thing as Discord - display a "preview" of a properly-coded image link. Because certainly, it's easy enough to search giphy or tenor and drop a link in chat.
I'll readily admit the low-effort ability to react with an icon is both a blessing and a curse. It's sometimes enough to drop in an icon or two as a response, saving mental bandwidth but still responding.
The problem of any social network that starts organically. If you're invested in the community and not specifically in the software, when people move on, you will too.
I'm new here 👋😆👋 This is my first comment on kbin. I'm migrating here from Reddit. Hope you like me 😆
Today is the last day for a lot of us there. I am using JoeyforReddit, such a wonderful Android app. I'll be sad to see it go, it's been an integral part of my every day. I hope the fediverse will fill that void for me. I also hope it blossoms - no one can take it away from us or get so greedy with it that all the users leave.
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