Are we likely to see another large-scare exodus to the Threadiverse as reddit begins rolling out age-verification worldwide?

Certainly. Don’t know how large and when, but a significant (relative to our size) bunch of people would likely show up. That plus people who dabble in both would increase their activity here. The threadiverse is more or less guaranteed to grow and form a solid contrubutor base. We don’t seek to increase profits YoY so our services are only going to get better over time. For-profit socials have to grow profits over time, so they are going to get worse. Increase in service quality for for-profit platforms is a temporary stage of their development. The threadiverse will be around in 5-10 years time, in some shape or form and it’ll be larger and better than it is today. This is why I keep pushing the vote buttons and type words every day. Deliberately spending more time than I’d like. 😄

This is simply not true.

1. nothing in life is ever fully “guaranteed”

2. our numbers have been actively decreasing since the Rexodus - from 60k (edit: 65k actually) at our peak down to ~35k now

3. PieFed now shadow-censors all votes with a daily vote quota, thereby limiting such interactions

Not everything always moves in a positive line. We might improve here, especially if we put in the efforts to do so, but it is not assured, especially without having put in such efforts.

mostly because people keep trying to go to smaller and smaller platforms. ee, was one of the large instances to disappear and almost everyone scattered so theres less people overall even contributing to lemmy,.