Nah, this is one more landmark on the eventual enshitifcation of every platform. This is only happening because as company that is publicly traded, so someone at Reddit HQ realized that they could make more money off new french users than the cost of ads. So then they have a feduciary duty to do exactly that. Just like the reddit API-ocalypse, the finicial benefits data from every redditors mobile by being forced to use the offical app was determined to be more profitable than those that left.

Yay capitlism! Either Lemmy dies or it grows enough to do the same eventually.