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Does anyone know how many people have left Reddit? (lemmy.world)
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most people who moved over are more likely to be contributors.

That's the key - a relatively small number of people provided the bulk of the content and they are also the kind of power users who would have been hit hard by the API changes, so are most likely to leave.

Quality over quantity and exactly the kind of people you want to help build a new place like this.

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

On yeah, teenagers getting smart phones is a big piece of it. We used to joke about summer Reddit being terrible with the influx of teenagers and then summer Reddit just became the normal