I’ve seen many comments and posts regarding the API fiasco on Reddit, with the claim that there will be a huge influx of users when that happens. I’m all for it, but I find it hard to believe that the average or even above average user will make the effort to switch.
I think it’ll be significant for Lemmy, but not significant for r.
At the very least I think the bump will be enough for Lemmy to entrench itself within the FOSS space (ie Matrix)