I’ve tried looking online but I’m not savvy enough to find a good answer. I haven’t been on Reddit since June 30, and am interested in seeing the number of people who have migrated. I know the Reddit user base is huge, so idk if it has been enough to hurt the site. Fuck spez.
The Threadiverse (Lemmy & kbin) had less than 10k active users before June. Now there’s more than 126k active users. It doesn’t mean that they all left Reddit, but at least that they are active here since Reddit fucked things up.
That’s good to see. I know the first few days that I used Lemmy my feeds were pretty sparse. Now I can endlessly scroll though new content. I hope the growth continues.
And now that there is enough to infinite-scroll, that’s enough to satisfy any one user. Of course, it’s true that having more content will allow for a larger number of high quality posts and the ability to serve more niche communities, but at least there is a viable alternative for that Reddit itch now. It’s so much easier to uninstall Reddit apps than it was a month ago.
Infinite scrolling requires jerboa to not randomly freeze up…(at least for us mobile app folk)
It is unlikely that even reddit themselves are able to conclusively answer this, as the protests made many people leave and many other people come or come back.
The userbase “churned” a great deal, which serves to obscure the specifics.
To add to this, if I were spez, and I was bleeding users rapidly, I would be willing to employ bots to inflate my numbers. I sincerely doubt spez is more ethical than I am, and it takes no genius to come up with this idea.
As one of those, I can’t even really answer it.
I used to spend hours a day on the site, mostly on my phone. Now I’m blocked from accessing it on my phone at all. I’ve stopped doom scrolling reddit altogether.
But I still get linked to Reddit often, from both friends and google searches. And there are one or two specific threads that I’m sure to check.
I’ve basically cut down from 15+ hours a week of Reddit to less than one. So have I quit Reddit or not?
Makes sense. Spez will do whatever it takes to make everything seem fine. I want to see the site implode, but I think it’s too big to fail.
Everything’s fine at Reddit HQ.
