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this chart (from your link) shows that the change has stifled the activity a bit. maybe a 10-20% drop in new posts per day. which is not insignificant. so maybe subscribers are rising, but the number of posts has dropped and plateaued (so far).
But i dont think it will ever go away, it was also my go-to place for a long time. Hopefully more of the posters and commenters head here!
It surprises me too on some level because it does seem very obvious.
I've also learned on multiple occasions over the years that I value different things and I value them much more strongly than a large swath of the selfhosting community. That may speak to whether or not people selfhost for ideological, practical, or other reasons that I am unaware of but, at the end of the day, I find myself disappointed that the version of the selfhosting community that I imagined and thought I was on the same page with is simply not the selfhosting community that exists.
What does the self-hosting community value, then?
Well… I hosted nothing myself, but now I host my own Lemmy instance :o)
We don't win this fight in a single blow. This is a war of attrition. When the main commenters and posters leave (many of which, IMO, have already left Reddit), then there will be no reason to keep going to Reddit for answers to all the lurkers and fly by readers looking for answers to specific issues, or content to browse or whatever....
I guarantee Reddit knows that a non-trivial number of visits to the site are made by people who are looking for a post or comment as a fly by who may not be a user at all; which is why large contributors to Reddit who have tried to remove their comments, posts and accounts, have found that their entire account is being restored after manually deleting everything.
Until relevant content and answers are not posted on Reddit at all and people need to either come here, or go somewhere that isn't Reddit for the information, then Reddit will continue to be relevant for people. Once the information there is too dated to be useful, then Reddit will slowly starve to death as all the premium (paid) users exit, and their ad revenue dries up.
Right now, I'm a premium Reddit user because I bought a full year of premium prior to when all the API nonsense started.... I'm sure there's plenty that are in a similar situation. So when the money goes away, they'll whimper off into internet nostalgia and be forgotten otherwise.
IMO, right now, we're seeing the death throws of Reddit... I also think that the Reddit owners will do everything that they can to make it look good on paper, ruining it for users, and the best thing they can do is sell the platform while it's still "the place" to go online to a buyer that is maybe out of the loop on the user protests.