“Why is this not loading?” as inevitably nothing will load when the servers get 1000x the traffic they were expecting.
But assuming the servers would somehow handle it, it would be a huge boon to Lemmy. There are a lot of people here saying they would leave, but I think that’s stupid. The reason why I left Reddit was that the platform gave me the middle finger, it had nothing to do with the users. The same goes for TikTok, but this time the middle finger comes with a thousand prying eyes. On Lemmy, I could finally find communities in the niche hobbies that I like.
I’d just hope they all join a tiktok-specific instance so it’s easy enough to filter out. But it would be nice to see a larger adoption of the fediverse (although I feel like overnight growth of that scale might rock the boat too much, it would be far more preferable to have a more gradual adoption).
I’d probably have to filter out the sudden influx of TikTok-like shorts, but I’d still be glad to have more people to connect with, and on a FOSS platform no less.
If suddenly every post was a vertical video with every title and comment in Gen Z slang and therefore unreadable to me I’d wonder what the fuck happened. Otherwise I probably wouldn’t notice unless people were actively talking about it.
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