Reddit since 2010 has always had a hard time with people willing to actually go to alternatives. Just to have different owners/operators, the code was open source 6 years ago, but not enough users ever bothered to establish an “alternate reddit” with a significant user base. Even if it was only 10% of the main Reddit site, it would have been something. Voat was different software, Lemmy is different software, it was just odd that people were so loyal to such a centralized system. I remember when a lot of Reddit users came from Fark, Slashdot, Usenet, Digg - it wasn’t out of loyalty to a single owner/operator.