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.
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.
It very much does. The old metric was that 1% create, 10% comment, and the rest consume (I don’t think the metric included a number for moderator-types). I suspect most of the emigres have a heavier percentage of moderators, creators, and commenters. And I suspect it also contains a larger percentage of old-time redditors. While there are undoubtedly a bunch of people stepping into place on reddit right now, the loss of the people who left is going to hurt reddit.
there’s a distorting effect here too, years ago policy changes on reddit had some contributors stop almost entirely. I spent a large amount of the last few years shit posting if i posted at all.
We may have a large chunk of the current 1% of content creators and as number of dormant creators re-activating after years. It does explain the pace of some of these communities.
I don’t like the distinction between commenting and creation tbh. Comments were most of reddit’s valuable content. 90% of everything else in the past few years has just been rehosting content from tiktok and Instagram