I wonder how much actual cash those billionaires have. Probably not that much more than millionaires (like one order of magnitude more, not three-four). All those billions are actually assets they own, not money.
Okay, I was not 100% accurate on that, maybe even completely wrong, but that’s beside the point. The point is, protest amounted to nothing, and I do not think that it is beneficial for potential community growth to have the subreddit dead.
I really don’t think it’s possible. Reddit’s strength is that basically everyone is already on reddit. If someone has an odd question about specific topic, they can pretty much instantly find a community and solve their issue. I guess you can lure the core of the community: regulars and contributors, but when people like me have some minor interest in something, it’s highly unlikely they’ll go out of their way to register somewhere else to ask a question.
I’m looking at the stats of this community and I gotta say 3 users / day, 38 users / 6 months is negligible even compared to small community on reddit. I don’t really think it would split anything.
Mad Scientist Ethics Board (lemmy.world)
Stolen from imgur rule (programming.dev)
And the image/chat was stolen from tumblr, I think?
Ice cold (lemmy.today)
Is it time to reopen the subreddit?
Today I checked the pmos sub and was quite surprised it was closed. And for what reason? API change is ancient history....