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Do we at this point have any substantial data on just how many users Reddit actually lost due to this?

Any resources would be greatly appreciated.

As a sidenote, I'll add that they certainly lost my account the second I couldn't use RiF anymore.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (3 children)

https://the-federation.info/platform/73

The numbers do speak for themselves.

While it's not huge, compared to reddits numbers, it's a massive boost to lemmy. A lot of those leaving are more likely more active users. It's bootstrapped Lemmy into a viable platform. It now has a critical mass of users to generate content.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks for this. Those numbers indeed speak for themselves.

From a personal point of view the more I use Lemmy the more I like it. There are a lot of QoL features I really think is better here. Like this built in reply window, for instance.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The Active Users Ratio graph is not filling me with hope - if I’m reading it correctly there isn’t increased activity, just increased sign ups.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I want to comment and submit content, I just feel like I don't have anything of value to share. That tends to be why I lurk. Not sure if that's the case for most other lurkers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

yea i feel the same way. heck, the only reason I'm leaving this comment is just to prove your point

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I was mostly a lurker on reddit, but as others have inspired me to do, I comment and have made a couple of posts to help generate content.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah we'd need to know post rate % or avg posts per posting user to understand what's up.

Maybe 40% of reddit is lurkers? Maybe 5%?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That’s certainly the reason I mainly lurk, I don’t have anything of value to add at the moment. When I do I definitely plan to create some content.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Total users have sky rocketed and iirc like 90% of users/people who log in to say vote, save and subscribe to communities are lurkers. Hell, I've been "lurking" since I've signed up.

Since there's such a spike in users, and prior to the Reddit death, most users were power users. I'm surprised that the active user ratio didn't decrease. (My 90% lurker figure would give a 0.1 ratio). The fact it near increased by .05 instead is wild.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And my sax! (We need a good soundtrack)