I signed up from prgrmaming.dev and I really like the function of being able to sign up within a different community that you can choose.

Yep, if they can find a smaller, specialised, or localised instance it is better for the network for them to join that and learn to subscribe to others rather than lumping on one big server.

It's just a little awkward for new users to subscribe and navigate across instances at the moment, but new features and "gasp" third party apps can make that easier.

On the other hand sending people to a list of servers that includes stuff like lemmygrad and yiffit pretty high on the list is... a potential turnoff

I prefer https://lemmyverse.net

I prefer https://lemmyverse.net/communities

I think there'll be a lot more, since so far people have only left for ideological reasons. Once they actually lose access to reddit via third party apps, it'll be a lot easier to justify moving on.

And there are probably people still hoping that reddit will reverse their decision or somehow fix things before the changes take effect.

I read about 3% of Reddit users use a third party app, which doesn't sound like a lot but Reddit has millions of users.

I agree. I could see a few extra users joining, but I don’t think it will be a flood.

When the 3PAs are actually gone and when they open Apollo or other app, that user is not going to be ok with the official Reddit app and they’ll look for an alternative. I bet a bunch end up on Lemmy or kbin.

I think a couple of powerusers, that still hoped to change something with the blackout, will check Lemmy out after the new policy started. But I don't expect a huge wave.

He's doing good work. Love how transparent he is.

They have an env var for an Open Telemetry endpoint in the docker config.