Don’t dwell too much on it. I don’t think the average GW2 player cares about it at all. It’s probably a matter of convenience and the fact that the subreddit will show up a lot on Google search results.

The best thing we can do is make sure there is an alternative, which is what we are trying to do here. This community will probably never be as big as the subreddit, but that is okay. We just need to be a viable alternative 😉

People are lazy and use what they are accustomed to. As long as it doesn’t affect them that much, they wont change.

The best example is WhatsApp in that regard. I don’t know how many of your friends & family still use this, but it’s astonishing in bubble at least and their policies have a drastically bigger impact for the individual user than any changes on Reddit users.

The problem I see on lemmy in particular is that there are only a few users yet. If this gets better, the casual user will join too. (Network Effect)