Hello there everyone!
I am one of people who decided to migrate from Reddit, but I wasn't a content creator or mod, just an average user who read some posts, liked one here and there, very rarely commented anything. But as someone with some IT knowledge that also read many posts regarding protest, I dropped the site like a hot potato once it started to show my support for mods.
The kbin experience for now is fine, obviously the site needs to get accustomed to recent user influx one step at a time. I wish the devs the best! Thank for your hard work <3
But the only issue I have is that not every community I have followed transfered here or not every sub found its magazine substitute. While some of them are already growing or I can deal without them, there're few niche ones that still hold valuable information. I don't want to help create an illusion that users don't care at all, but there were times when I found solutions for work related problems there or resources and answers for questions I couldn't find elsewhere. Not to mention the niche communities. Thus forcing me to go there lurking in these cases.
And here's my question - how do you feel about it, mods and ex-redditers? In a few months that probably won't be an issue, but I'm now troubled with that as I want to make moraly right decision.
The vast majority of Redditors are lurkers who barely post or comment, let alone upvote. If you lurk, that's just status quo, even if there are millions who vow to do the same. But as others have mentioned, you're boosting their active daily users which is a good look for their investors, and it costs them practically nothing to do.
If you want to be defiant and you must use Reddit, I think you can still mess up another of their metrics. Click every single ad you see so their ad-click conversion rate goes down.