How many of them are real users vs bots though? It’s easy to inflate numbers
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helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 months agoIt was wishful thinking when people revolted for 3 days against the API going away. What happened? Nothing. People were back to Reddit as normal a week later. Reddit’s userbase has only grown since then. People will complain to the ends of the Earth but there’s no amount of abuse you can levy at the them that will convince them to make the minor inconvenience of moving to a different platform. See: Twitter.
j4yt33@feddit.org 3 months ago
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Lemmy’s largest userbase growth of all time, ever, happened during the reddit API fiasco.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 months ago
Did some people leave? Sure. Any actual significant portion? No, not even a little.
btaf45@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yes. More than a little. It was a huge event for lemmy. Did you think the entire reddit userbase was going to switch in one week? Reddit didn’t get their userbase in one week. Everything in reddit looks shittier than it was before the exodus.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 months ago
If you’d like to post evidence that contradicts my source, please do.
I was not discussing anything to do with “switching”, I was discussing users leaving Reddit.
cygnus@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
There’s also no correlation between creating a Lemmy account and completely quitting Reddit.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 3 months ago
No, but it’s a reasonable assumption that individual will be spending less time on the platform, at the very minimum.
Personally, I haven’t used Reddit on my phone since they killed third party apps, although I have used the desktop site for a few subreddits that don’t really exist here.
IMongoose@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Reddit has over 1,000,000,000 active users per month. Lemmy has about 50,000. The API fiasco was a big deal for lemmy, but it was not a big deal for reddit. Lemmy is a rounding error to them.
I would also bet that a lot of lemmy users still visit reddit for their niche communities. I know I do, even though I host a server for my own niche hobby, but I’m the only one who’s ever posted anything to it.