This was honestly the straw that broke the camel’s back for me. I used to check reddit every now and then, but after this I just couldn’t justify it to myself to use it. I used to post a lot of stuff, and I modded a relatively small community, but it just feels wrong to use it.
Probably because the current system works for them, and changing it would cost political capita that could be used elsewhere.
I think the federation system is quite a barricade for some people. I recently changed over to Lemmy from Reddit, and it was quite challenging to first understand how it worked. Also I am not sure that I even now understand how this works fully.
Also the smaller community on Lemmy might be a turn-off for some people.
I don’t like change that much, so I can tolerate a lot of stuff before changing.