Those results might be slightly skewed by alternate accounts. When I first joined after during the Reddit Exodus I created this account on lemmy.world, but the instance suffered a LOT of downtime for the first month or so, so I created a few other accounts on lemmy.ml and sh.itjust.works so I could still browse while lemmy.world was down.
After the instance stabilized I pretty much stopped using the account, so I personally am 2 of the people who “left” by leaving the other accounts inactive.
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andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Thanks for sharing this, this is really interesting.
My hope is that when Reddit announces their IPO, more people will start talking about wishing for alternatives. I hope this motivates a few people who checked it out and left and lots of new people to take a first look, and when they do I hope they find an already active community that produces enough content to retain more people and generate more content.
Chainweasel@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Rolando@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Same. It wasn’t clear how to choose an instance, so I ended up creating accounts in three different places and posting a couple times before settling on this account. I haven’t used the other accounts in months, so they’re part of that surge.
someacnt_@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Same, it might have been this
sjmarf@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Same. I’ve made six accounts since I joined during the exodus, only two of which I actively use now.
troyunrau@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
When the reddit API protests occurred, lemmy wasn’t really ready for the influx either. Historically, when a social network dies, it’s some combination of a protest and there being a pre-existing landing place that is ready to receive the influx. In the case of digg dying, that was reddit ready and waiting.
But lemmy had so many rough edges and was almost entirely unknown at the time of the reddit protest – bugs, missing features, no apps… For most reddit users, even with the 3rd party shutdown, moving to lemmy at the time was objectively worse.
You’re right though – the next time something happens, lemmy is now established, the apps exist, many of the bugs and missing features have been dealt with, etc.
lvxferre@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Another important detail is that Digg v4 pissed off most of the userbase, so the impact was pretty much immediate. Reddit APIcalypse pissed off only power users instead; the impact will only come off later (sadly likely past IPO).
troyunrau@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Well, there was also the DeCSS key censorship debacle…
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emly_sh_@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Could you explain what this was? I couldn’t find anything about it while searching.
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Totally remember the lack of apps. Initially, I just had to use Lemmy through a mobile browser. Lots of devs were working hard to publish their apps, and after a few months we had lots of options. That was just amazing how quickly it happened.
BTW shout out to Bean, my favorite Lemmy client. It’s not perfect, so in some cases I still use Voyager to fill in the gaps, so bonus points for Voyager too.