“Lol no one is going to leave reddit.”
“I personally think trying to fragment a niche community like this is extremely detrimental to the fanbase.”
“I’m sure you and the other 1 person that will be on Lemmy is going to be so mad when no one posts there.”
“you want people to go to a bad Reddit competitor, to join the - what it’s called, a sublemmy? - that you’ve just set up and where you’ve reposted everybody else’s content?”
“I agree that lemmy is not the way forward, no argument there.”
“Like a lot of “us” won’t be on Twitter anymore and be on Mastodon instead?”
Even if it all works out fine for most users, the scenarios to be expected are that it’s not going to be the place to be anymore.
Scenario a: the CEO gets his way, fires the moderators and replaces them with his own like a dictator, most people stay on and it becomes just another soulless, sludge-pumping money hungry monolith for its complacent users.
Scenario b: the current moderators win and turn it even further into a left-wing, over-politicized echo chamber.
Scenario c: the boycotting group wins and make the site unappealing for most, plunging it into anonimity and irrelevance.
In either of the three scenarios, I don’t want to be there anymore.