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It is possible to estimate?

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[–] Tomato666@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did. RIF stopped working

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[–] eddietrax@dmv.social 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Ex Apollo user here. Dropped Reddit as soon as Apollo shut down and haven’t looked back. Occasionally a Reddit post will return in my search but that’s about it for Reddit.

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[–] tiny_tina_@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

I deleted my 11year reddit account

[–] Flyingostrich@endlesstalk.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Purged my main account by editing every post and reply. Then deleated all of them. Then deleated the account. . There are bots to do that automatically and make it easy.

I still have a NSFW account that Is exclusively used for NSFW stuff. I kept that one, but honestly that will probably be gone soon too. The vast majority of NSFW subreddits just feel like a bunch of only fans actors trying to self promote. Nothing against them or onlyfans, but I have no interest in it and would rather see stuff from people that are just having some fun. Not trying to make a living doing it.

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[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

Right here. Have you been on reddit lately? It's worse than usual. And I'm not just talking about all of the hardcore conservative/borderline fascist subs that all of a sudden materialized. The discourse on most subs is clearly dominated by bots now.

[–] DigitalJacobin@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have. Lemmy is especially good for content geared towards news, tech, FOSS, privacy, memes (if, unlike me, Reddit-style memes are your thing), et cetera. For me, that checks off all the boxes for what i used Reddit for, so when i started using Lemmy, there wasn't really anything i was missing from Reddit. So, while i'm willing to miss out on some content in order to drop Reddit, i haven't really needed to.

However, this definitely isn't the case for most people. If people are just using Reddit for certain things they just don't see on Lemmy, that's totally fine (though i hope they're using an ad blocker or something), especially if they stick around for when Lemmy does start having that kind of content.

Growth isn't a straight line and there will be points of fluctuation, stagnation, and decline.

[–] DerpyPlayz18@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I stopped using Reddit the moment sync for Reddit died, I occasionally end up in the website when I'm googling for a tech problem

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[–] TJDetweiler@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

I did. Once sync was out it was a pretty easy transition. I just wanted an app to scroll mindlessly for a couple minutes a day, and Lemmy does the job. The content stream is a lot slower, but for low usage users like myself, it's fine.

That said, from what I've gleaned from other threads, it still seems like most people still use Reddit in some capacity.

[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I definitely left. I still occasionally lurk on Reddit but I never post or vote anymore. Real shame, because I really want to share my Factorio Bob's+Angels (much harder and more complicated mod of Factorio) victory on r/factorio, but I won't because of Spez's actions.

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[–] kumatomic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I gave up reddit. When Infinity announce a subscription I was done. I didn't want go through all the hassle getting an app key in whatever way when this is easy. Also Reddit CEO is a piece of crap, like pretty much all CEOs.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Left reddit after 13 years, never looked back. Fuck Reddit

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I started my own instance and haven't touched Reddit since, except sometimes as search results. But I don't browse, login, etc.

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[–] mertn@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

I dropped reddit and facebook. Don't miss them much.

[–] t7tis@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mapped reddit.com to 127.0.0.1. My life is so much better now!

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[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 6 points 1 year ago

It's all the New users on Lemmy since June 2023

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We could estimate this by randomly sampling some Lemmy users, with the following questions:

  • did you use Reddit before?
  • did you stop using Reddit?

And then comparing it with the total amount of Lemmy users.

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[–] AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

I only lurked on Reddit through third party apps. Now I am permanently here, and I can comment and post with good conscience too!

[–] null@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Still using reddit read-only through Libreddit but I don't even check it every day anymore.

I hit up my niche self-hosted and Linux subs, take a peek at /r/all, get immediately put off by all the bot content and toxicity, and come right back to Lemmy.

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[–] crackajack@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago

I haven't fully gave up on Reddit. There are communities that are still active over there but not here. However, I am still pretty optimistic that Lemmy will take off eventually. Reddit had been in the same situation as Lemmy right now when they were just in their beginning!

[–] _s10e@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

I did. Occasionally visit old.reddit.com put of nostalgia, but never logged in, never controbute. It's not as busy here, but i like it. Lemmy has an OG nerd feeling to it.

[–] _Gr1zzel@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

I use reddit only 2-3 times a month since the kill of third party apps.

[–] Alfredolin@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago
[–] Cat@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I dropped it for the Fediverse. I decided to use kbin after trying Lemmy for a bit.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago

I really don't think there's a way to estimate. Personally, as a long term Sync user, I switched even before Sync was reddit for Lemmy. There's no real way to measure it though.

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

i'll occasionally go back and browse on desktop only but i don't interact. all interaction is here along with most of my browsing

[–] AccountMaker@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago

I deleted my reddit account and browse lemmy daily. I do miss a few subs on reddit concerning ancient greece/greek and corvids, but it is what it is. I'm fairly satisfied with lemmy.

[–] Norule6@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

I left reddit for good. I will not knowingly enhance reddits traffic stats on principle for the crap spez pulled. Everyone should do the same.

[–] dullbananas@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

I now mostly use Reddit to tell people about Lemmy

[–] calhoon2005@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Count me as one. I haven't been back since sync went dark. I do get frustrated with not being able to find that niche information/answer to a question by adding site:Reddit to a search though - I know it's my choice though

[–] emptiestplace@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I think we should focus on quality and thoughtful discussion. I appreciate stupid memes too, but if it were up to me that would be secondary - even if overall popularity takes a hit.

Also, less concern over Reddit would be nice. I was there from the Digg exodus until the API drama, so I understand the change aspect quite well, but if genuine conversation is what matters to you, the correct people are here now.

[–] rosymind@leminal.space 4 points 1 year ago

Maybe make a poll?

[–] npz@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I still read Reddit sometimes, but I don't have an account anymore. It's like reading Facebook posts now. Really, really low quality content. It's sad, but I like the community here. Lemmy is more like what Reddit was 15ish years ago.

[–] jetsetdorito@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried using reddit again twice since the exodus. it's just not the same.

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[–] AggroKrab@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I did, I really just follow the sync app ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

If they didn't pull that API bs for sync, I wouldn't be here. No regurtz on the move tho

[–] SamboT@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

When im desperate for information and all I'm getting are ai generated article results, I will still resort to appending to reddit to my Google searches but otherwise I've deleted everything on reddit and keep up with major current events and bad memes here on lemmy. It really could be a better experience but it's better than... well... endorsing reddits decisions.

[–] Grayox@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

More than 4

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