I'm working on an article on this, but I'll just chime in here also... this Reddit protest has accomplished absolutely nothing. If you went on a holiday for two weeks during early June and came back - you wouldn't even know that there was a protest in the first place.
Lemmy got some exposure, as did Mastodon. But that exposure is very small. We're living at a time where people's attention span and focus is entirely depleted and nobody wants to move away from that which is already comfortable and familiar.
It's also a great example of how a whale can just swallow up the consequences because it is that big and that deeply rooted. Reddit is going full steam ahead towards its IPO with a huge (and it's clear now, a conscious) "fuck you" flag waving in the turbulence.
a platform with 50 million users doesn't die as a result of a 2 day blackout. MySpace and digg are still technically alive
this is probably reddit's biggest PR nightmare and this will make a permanent stain on the company.
Lemmy/kbin getting increased development is probably the best case scenario.
with the reddit sync dev and other devs making 3rd party clients we're going to see Lemmy be a viable alternative in the coming weeks or months.
I've already stopped using reddit on mobile. if they kill old reddit then my usage drops by over 90 percent
Digg was bought out for the name and is a news aggregate site without comments.
I'm trying to like Lemmy but it really needs a data dense "old.lemmy" interface. I doubt I'll stick with it...