“They’re shooting themselves in the foot,” Mir says. “The content of the users is what makes the platform worth visiting. These hosts kind of run into this confusion that their hosting is the reason people are going there, but it’s really for the other users on the medium.”
The Lemmy and Lemmymigration subs have like 2k users, which also didn’t really change over the last few days. If that is anything to go by I don’t expect a digg like exodus anytime soon.
Where you on reddit when Digg collapsed? Because it wasn’t just a solitary wave. Like human migration around Earth in prehistory, it was multiple waves, each motivated by different reasons.