It is possible to estimate?
There are dozens of us. DOZENS!
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More than dozens.
I mean, how many articles do you need that you’re never going to read on Reddit? You can load up Lemmy with enough communities to keep a good feed of news going.
News? I guess that’s why 95% of communities relying on original content are either dead or non-existant here.
That comes later. You need a good bustling community before a steady stream of original posts comes in.
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.
I am trying to get the Pokemon instance talkative again but I’m just one woman
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.
It will take a long time for the numbers to reflect reality. Look at Twitter, it’s still chugging along and it’s gotten way shittier than reddit has in the same time frame.
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
Count me in. I do really miss Reddit though and Lemmy is nowhere near as interesting as Reddit. But no one said protesting is easy.
Well summarized!
The issue with FOSS software is it attracts people who use FOSS software. I’m not saying I want the reddit of 2021 back, but the reddit of 2016 would be nicer than the reddit of 2009 we are emulating now.
Once a few of us get our friends on board and we grow a touch more, I think Lemmy has a real chance of capturing some more of the “middle” tech literacy users, giving us some of what I, and I presume you, miss about Reddit.
I sure did. I was already tired of their terrible moderation policies and the arbitrary power some mods abused all to hell. Good riddance.
I wasn’t sure whether I should completely drop Reddit, but now, after a month on Lemmy I can say that I stopped using Reddit
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 didn’t stop using Reddit but I use it much less now, and I seldom post anymore. I’ve noticed a significant drop in quality; lots of good posters and mods left.
Dropped Reddit and never went back.
Edit: Gotta take the flow and promote !bassment@feddit.de while this post is hot. A community for Bass-Guitar players I’ve been building since the Reddit blackout. Come join us!
Same. I stopped visiting after the boycott started. A couple of days before rif went down, I popped back in to say bye to my friends on there and that was it.
Consider destroying your old comments and deleting your account
https://old.reddit.com/r/redditseppuku/comments/14frr4u/reddit_seppuku_how_to/
I’ve almost completely stoped using Reddit, I only see it if I find it in a web search and it has an answer I’m looking for, this community is amazing, btw.
I’m here. I miss some of the smaller communities I used to be apart of. I go back if someone sends me a link, unless it’s NSFW. I don’t have the app, so I just tell people I can’t see that link anymore. shrug
I did. Only connect to Reddit if I want to find something from saved items.
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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.
Wow. Where did you get those numbers, would love to peruse
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
Hahaha wow. Thanks
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!?
Twitter by the looks of things.
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.
