You couldn’t even comprehend that I wasn’t criticising a person (consider this as criticism). Instead, I made a point illustrating that switching off from reddit didn’t do any good for the community. It really isn’t that great that instead of active discussion you stumble upon months-old threads.

You just replied to a two-month old post. What a booming community! Clearly, leaving reddit vitalized it so much.

I see the same numbers when I look at https://lemmy.ml/c/postmarketOS and https://lemmy.world/c/postmarketos@lemmy.ml

Only the number of subscribers, posts and comments differ. Anyway, it’s still order of magnitude away from what was possible on reddit.

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.

we need to lure them to move out of Reddit

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.

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.

as far as I know, redreader which is a foss app, wasn’t affected by reddit’s fees/api change