It’s not about education at this point, it’s about regulation. Without mandates and penalties there is zero incentive to change for the large corporate polluters.

The majority of Reddit’s 57m users do not use 3rd party apps. In fact I’d argue most don’t (or didn’t) even know you could use a 3rd party app or understand why you’d want to. To them Reddit is just the app. So yeah, of course they’re not participating in the protest.

I don’t expect Reddit to go away or to be adversely impacted by this movement. But I’m not going to worry about what goes on there, similar to how I don’t have a FB account and I don’t worry about what the 1B other users are doing. I left Reddit for myself, if other people continue to use it then so be it.

I hope lemmy.ml can upgrade at some point. A lot of the slowness I’m running into is trying to browse/discovery communities that happen to live on that instance.