It is possible to estimate?
I haven't been back to Reddit since the first day of protests.
Not gonna lie though, I miss it. The niche stuff I went to Reddit for in the first place came here during the drama, but despite an initial push to get some replacement communities going here, they've gone almost completely inactive now.
Lemmy has been a decent replacement for /r/all browsing, but it's not at all a replacement for most of the subreddits I was actually subscribed to
I can't believe how the mods caved. They could have taken their balls and gone home and Reddit would have felt it
I may have missed some steps but I recall reddit removing and replacing mods of many subs.
It doesn't matter, because the damage is done. Small communities aren't what they used to be and the big subreddits are even lower quality.
R/ASOIAF knew about Lemmy and debated internally whether to migrate. I honestly can't believe they didn't. They were among the more passionate holdouts
They could have just made a post after setting up a lemmy community and people would have made the move
Also, can mods not delete subreddits? I'm surprised this didn't happen
Yep. I really wish more had migrated over here from Reddit. Seems like it's almost business as usual over there according to my friend who still uses it frequently.
I am trying to get the Pokemon instance talkative again but I'm just one woman
Once I get around to updating it I'll start a Radical Red AAR series there for you
It's a FireRed hack with almost every Pokémon and regional form through gen 9, with gen 9 mechanics and a Blaze Black-style difficulty
I could join up and everyone could laugh at me because I know almost nothing about Pokemon.
Eh we could use a laugh, sides the journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step... Come with us and catch em all
According to Google trends, the people who left are an insignificantly small number, Reddit has still grown in search popularity over the last year. However, if you've browsed Reddit since the shutdown, you know that this isn't the whole story, engagement and quality are both down.
The quality time Reddit is really bad. And the app is trash, all ads and promoted posts, and a new feature to be like tiktok. Fkn gag me
When reddit shut down their api every single subreddit on the site went down in comment activity by 75% or more. Comment activity has only been decreasing in the month since then. Post activity has been in decline as well.
Whether this means people stopped using the site entirely or not is up for debate. But in terms of damage to the community on the site it is the single biggest social media failure I have seen on the web since Digg. Even Musk hasn't damaged Twitter as much as the api change has damaged reddit.
https://subredditstats.com
Go to literally any subreddit, scroll to the comments per day graph and check out the drop on July 11th. The official date of the change was July 1st but they delayed it or something with a grace period. That drop on July 11th is the api drop.
Some examples in order - /r/mildlyinfuriating /r/whitepeopletwitter /r/gaming /r/Askreddit
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What is happening over there is one of the biggest disasters I've ever seen online and the fact that it's going unreported on while Twitter and Musk continue to get all the attention is absolutely ridiculous. Reddit is collapsing and unless they do something enormous it is currently in a death spiral.
Reddit is collapsing and unless they do something enormous it is currently in a death spiral.
where will all the nazis go!?
Holy shit. I'll be honest, having quit using reddit for daily browsing and simply relegating it to its main productive purpose of "usable Google results," I kind of assumed that the outrage over the API pricing ultimately didn't have much of an effect. But this data is nuts. I guess it goes to show the effect that alienating power users can have on a site that's so power-user driven, where a fraction of users even comment and a tiny fraction of that fraction posts content and an even tinier fraction of that tiny fraction moderates to keep things running smoothly.
Just recently updated on this, reddit are actively trying to do something about it but are still in the "oh fuck what do we do?" stage of gathering information. https://hexbear.net/comment/3946548
I don't think this is all just alienating power users. I think a major aspect of this is disturbing routines that people previously had. When people have a daily routine where they do the same thing every single day you shouldn't disturb that because then they replace that part of their routine with something else, that's what users did with reddit imo when their preferred app no longer worked. They just used something else, probably Tiktok.
I did. To all the people on Reddit who confidently said "you'll be back in a few days" turns out you were very wrong lmao
I still check the hobby and city subs that are relevant to me and I've noticed r/all has become a reactionary mess. Specifically noticed a pattern of hatred for climate change activism and support of vigilante or police suppression of these movements. I'm not sure if regular libs have been migrating to Lemmy leaving only the worst posters or if they are just becoming shittier.
I'm not sure if regular libs have been migrating to Lemmy leaving only the worst posters or if they are just becoming shittier.
Oh it is pretty clear now libs were never going to actually support real climate activism in the long run, anything that actualy threatens to disrupt their comfortable lives and treats.
I think also its just the fact any real climate action is inherently against the liberal democracy that continues to fail despite constantly promising e.g all the climate accords. The libs will naturally see protests against this inaction as a protest against democracy therefore everyone will be declared eco-fascists/tankies or worse.
I'm not sure if regular libs have been migrating to Lemmy leaving only the worst posters or if they are just becoming shittier.
They don't have to necessarily migrate to Lemmy. There's plenty of other social media sites. My guess is most people who are fed up with Reddit won't bother with a shitty Reddit clone but move on to a different social media.
I stopped using Reddit on my phone, which was most of my Reddit time, but I still use it on my PC.
On mobile I exclusively browse Lemmy.
I would totally migrate completely to Lemmy, but the general audience here is a bit too... radicalised for me. Sometimes I just want to relax, read some interesting link and interact in the comments.
Check out the instances that have defederated with the radicalized ones? I hang out in 2 Lemmy instances, still working to finish migrating from here to the other.
Exactly the same for me.
I'll add that there's just less going on here. My front pages have new stuff about every day, but not more than that
My default sort is top 12 hours. Keeps the home page fresh, I never seem to run out of good content
I'm smart enough to know you're looking for a calculated estimate, yet dumb enough to add "I did it" for you to add to your count. Happy counting!
Me! I'll still end up on Reddit occasionally from Google searches for stuff but I very much appreciate having a place to mindlessly scroll and read which isn't capitalistic
I was mostly a lurker so my dropping it didn't have much impact other than deleting a decade old account. If there's niche knowledge or communities I might still look (if it comes up in search results) but the urge to do so voluntarily is gone.
I only use it for sports discussion, as the third party app I use still works with a patched version. If the third party app stops working, I'll stop. It's not like the discussion on Reddit is high quality anyways.
I mostly did 3 years ago and have kinda nixed most of the rest of my reddit habits once RiF went down. It does move a lot slower, I cannot spend all day browsing askreddit or whatever in a depressive funk. I do still sometimes go on as part of searches for things.
I have no idea how many people though. The number of people on hexbear (daily users) is way lower than r/chapotraphouse at its height, assuming a continuity of community. There would be some people (possibly even a majority) who spend a decent amount of time on both.
I just switched from Sync to Sync. The transition was bumpy but I'm still on Sync.
I was a heavy reddit user. Don't go there anymore. I'm done. There's just a moral line that was crossed, and that's that. Same with facebook. It's over. Now it's the constant fight to keep google at bay, but that's what it is.
Pretty much the same story for me, including the moral line. I wish more people would draw that line when it comes to all those unethical companies...
I dropped Reddit but my Lemmy usage certainly isn't what my Reddit usage was. I wish more of the websites I frequented had their own forums like the old days.
