Fuck Reddit!!!
I go back to Reddit (Adblock enabled) only to see new posts from my favorite lewd cosplayers because I'm too cheap for OnlyFans.
Deleted my two main accounts and I think 3 alts that I could still remember, and haven't been back since. I can't use social media without Sync.
While I doubt it is possible to estimate how many left Reddit since the spez crap went down, the total growth of others like Lemmy, Mastadon and even Threads is probably the most indicative of that estimate.
I too left Reddit when RiF died, but we're still a drop in the bucket compared to the numbers that still frequent the platform.
We need so someone that can count all the "I did" messages and use that as a crappy metric lol.
I have.
i did
+1 here
Fuck em.
I did, and I like it over here better. Sometimes I look at a reddit post if it turns up in search, but otherwise I like the culture here better.
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I am still lurking at reddit from time to time. But my account got permanently suspended because mods over there are wankers. So... sort of.
Me too
I did. Only connect to Reddit if I want to find something from saved items.
Me
Me
Me
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In a row?
I did
+1 for me
Not all communities I want to follow made the transition. I'm still on Reddit for HFY, and some smaller game communities.
But Lemmy has replaced a sizable chunk of my Reddit usage, especially around more technical topics.
I have used it for about 10 minutes in total since June. I used to use it a ton more.
i did personally
I'll follow a relevant search result, but I have not browsed it since coming over here.
This is actually an interesting question. First thing to note is that any estimation is by accounts, not by actual people (one person can have multiple alts on both). Honestly I don’t think it’s possible to have meaningful estimation.
That said, I think the first task is to figure out if we can estimate the number of accounts deleted on Reddit during the controversial period (let’s say April when the API change was starting) up til now.
I’m not aware whether there’s public daily data on it from Reddit, but there have been attempts at archiving reddit during this time and of course before. So one can theoretically use the archives to find out “all” existing users. And check the links now via browser (or curl) to see if they still exist, treat that as a good-enough proxy for deleted account.
One may get an estimate of when they were deleted by checking the links in the archives if possible. If not, there’s also Wayback machine that we may use to get a sense, but there are limitations of that.
Lemmy tracks account registration daily, I believe. I don’t know what stats one needs to run but maybe if we can line up the time series of account creation on Lemmy and account deletion on Reddit, we might have some sense of what a lower bound is for those who jumped ship forever.
i go through phases, around the blackout it was 100% lemmy, then like 25% lemmy, but lately i'm getting really fed up with reddit so it's like 90% lemmy