Back when the big flock from Reddit to Lemmy took place, I used this account to post this Unpopular Opinion:
Erasing your Reddit history is an asshole move, and does not really help “the cause”
If you check the profiles of the most ardent anti-Reddit voices from that thread, you would notice that most of them disappeared from Lemmy shortly after that, or a few months later at best.
Where did they go? Back to Reddit of course.
Lessons learned? Beware that the loudest most uncompromising voices regarding a cause when enthusiasm for it is at its peak, are often the ones who are the least committed to it.
Do note that neither the reaction back then, nor this retrospect came as a surprise to me.
Do you have any evidence that they went back to reddit and didn’t just account/instance hop? I’m in that thread under a previous account, but this is like my 4th or 5th account. I go back to some of them, but I like scoping out different sections of Lemmy/mbin to get a feel for where has the best vibe.
Ditto. My original account was on kbin.social, so it’s not like I even have the option to use it anymore. I’m sure plenty of people started out on one of the big, general instances, then eventually moved elsewhere.
I wrote “the majority”, not everyone.
Also
That would be almost worse with the real size/reach of Lemmy in mind, that is if this was true. Good thing it isn’t.
So no, you don’t have any evidence other than your own conjecture.