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Does anyone know how many people have left Reddit?
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this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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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.
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.
Yup. And there is no war in Ba Sing Se.
Reddit has been full of bits for at least a year
It most definitely has. Bots too. (sorry, couldn't help myself...)
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?
I’m similar to you, and would say I’ve quit. It’s the same with Facebook and Twitter. Occasionally someone will send me something from there or there’ll be something I can’t find anywhere else, but I don’t stick around to browse afterwards.
There's also people like me who are no longer active but didn't nuke their accounts. It'd be pretty hard to track.
Since the protests began, one of the subreddits I used to frequent now has an abnormally high number of comments; this might explain why.