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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.

  • @tacosplease
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    1811 year ago

    I was on reddit for 11 or 12 years. Commented several times a day. Voted 100 times or more per day. Left mid June and haven’t been back once. Now I do that shit here instead.

    • @[email protected]
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      541 year ago

      Turns out that Reddit is a lot easier to quit than most people claim or realize. I still end up there from web searches occasionally, because some communities just don’t exist in lemmy (also lemmy frankly sucks as a place for finding niche communities due to fragmentation and shitty search tools). But besides that, there’s nothing particularly compelling about reddit anymore.

      I wonder where people are going though? They’re definitely not coming here unless they’re an adult male technology/linux nerd.

      • Queen HawlSera
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        231 year ago

        I’m a woman who has never used linux

        Still post here. Gotta get those niche communities some use.

        I know I’ve won when my fetish communities are here

      • Emotional_Series7814
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        1 year ago

        I’m a woman, and although some technological things are interesting I’m not quite a tech nerd and definitely not a Linux one. Linux seems cool but I’m too lazy to make the jump. MacOS and/or Windows serve well enough for me.

        I also have several different Threadiverse accounts and try to post frequently in niche communities I’m interested in, although not so frequently I become the only contributor and it feels spammy.

        • @IMALlama
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          31 year ago

          Haha, totally feel you on trying to not spam the niche communities on interested in while also trying to help them grow.

        • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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          51 year ago

          I’m still looking to recreate the atmosphere of r/WitchesVsPatriarchy here on Lemmy. It’s what I miss most from Reddit.

      • @chiliedogg
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        61 year ago

        I’ll be the first to say that if they rolled back the changes I’d return in a heartbeat.

        I miss reddit a lot, but I decided to leave if they went through with the API changes and I stand by that decision. But I definitely miss it and Tildes and Lemmy simply don’t replace it.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      The only reason I ever see reddit anymore is for archived info. It’s only a matter of time before that’s all here anyway