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Most major subreddits show a decrease of between 50 and 90 percent in average daily posts and comments, when compared to a year ago. This suggests the problem is way fewer users, not the same number of users browsing less. The huge and universal dropoff also suggests that people left, either because of the changes or the protests, and they aren’t coming back.
Other than Lemmy, where did users go?
Outside lol.
I’m honestly curious too.
They obviously didn’t all come here. I wonder how many we’re talking about. Maybe they just sort of dispersed into the various other social media sites?
I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that the vast majority of “users” either came to Lemmy, Kbin, or Mastodon. There were a surprisingly small amount of users that weren’t bots, and were content generators, either in OC, or comments.
I suspect many, if not most, of the bots got turned off, only to be replaced by enshittified bots. It’s way too obvious who’s a bot on Reddit now. Prior to the migration, it was much more difficult to identify a bot over there.
That article measured the drop off by comment volume. Going by the 90-9-1 heuristic, the 10% of the really active “power users” left. Also judging by the fact that a dogshit repost sub like mademesmile is what’s hitting top of reddit consistently now indicates to me that the 1% of content creators have also peaced out. I see quite a lot of original content on lemmy. Kinda feels like reddit 2012ish levels of content. Not completely endless, but enough to take a good long shit.
Yeah I’ve been kind of browsing both reddit and Lemmy for awhile, but over time in getting super tired of the constant boring/obvious AITAH and just teenage relationship advice spam that floods the frontpage. Definitely has made me open reddit less, and really just for specific communities I can’t find elsewhere.
Lotta people went to Tumblr for a bit, also Discord for sports and live chats
Honestly having a few apps to cycle through has felt pretty good for me
I tried getting back into tumblr. Then a few weeks ago they just shittified their ugly clunky browser interface so badly I left again. I wish there was a fine arts reblogging substitute. Having a feed full of art was my anti-anxiety fix for years
Yeah Tumblr was great for that. Most of the artists migrated to Instagram, so sometimes I hold my nose and check them out there, but it’s definitely not perfect
May I recommend pixelfed? For me it’s a great way to find other photographers and their work
/r/outside ? I thought people left reddit /s
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Likely Discord, playing games, outside… a few perhaps to oldschool forums.
Yep, I’m pretty confident people went to Discord, TikTok, YouTube, Tumblr, HackerNews, Tildes, Discuit, etc.
Obviously not everyone came here, but it seems people spread out a lot more and don’t spend time on any one site.
I know one of my friends is using dedicated forums like stack overflow now
I’ve probably been on Reddit 5 times since they killed the apps.
I’m S ranking Cuphead over and over again on my Steam deck. I’ll probably be doing that 20 years from now.
Nothing soothes me like that game, which is crazy because it’s frustrating as hell. Oh but that feeling when you get hit right after you hear “KNOCKOUT” is unbeatable.
Discord, Instagram, Telegram, (fark :P) would be my guesses.
Bluesky, Mastodon, the wide array of reddit knockoffs like squabblr and hubski
The library
I started learning guitar again with the additional time, after a 13 year period of not taking it seriously.
I’ve seen improvements in Sight reading General dexterity Fretboard layout comprehension Clarity (less buzz/fuzz)
Thanks for being trash, reddit. It was exactly what I needed to get my ass moving and doing something more worthwhile.
I started playing chess again. I’m ass at it, but hopefully I’ll get much better with time. And if not, at least it’s a nice little distraction from everything else.
Private chat rooms has been my guess for a number of years. The internet got too public. Big boards aren’t practical anymore.
I read more now tbh