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.

  • Cynar
    55•1 year ago

    https://the-federation.info/platform/73

    The numbers do speak for themselves.

    While it’s not huge, compared to reddits numbers, it’s a massive boost to lemmy. A lot of those leaving are more likely more active users. It’s bootstrapped Lemmy into a viable platform. It now has a critical mass of users to generate content.

    • @[email protected]OP
      6•1 year ago

      Thanks for this. Those numbers indeed speak for themselves.

      From a personal point of view the more I use Lemmy the more I like it. There are a lot of QoL features I really think is better here. Like this built in reply window, for instance.

    • @[email protected]
      5•1 year ago

      The Active Users Ratio graph is not filling me with hope - if I’m reading it correctly there isn’t increased activity, just increased sign ups.

      • @[email protected]
        16•1 year ago

        I want to comment and submit content, I just feel like I don’t have anything of value to share. That tends to be why I lurk. Not sure if that’s the case for most other lurkers.

        • @[email protected]
          3•1 year ago

          yea i feel the same way. heck, the only reason I’m leaving this comment is just to prove your point

        • @[email protected]
          3•1 year ago

          I was mostly a lurker on reddit, but as others have inspired me to do, I comment and have made a couple of posts to help generate content.

        • @[email protected]
          2•1 year ago

          Yeah we’d need to know post rate % or avg posts per posting user to understand what’s up.

          Maybe 40% of reddit is lurkers? Maybe 5%?

        • @[email protected]
          1•1 year ago

          That’s certainly the reason I mainly lurk, I don’t have anything of value to add at the moment. When I do I definitely plan to create some content.

      • @[email protected]
        8•1 year ago

        Total users have sky rocketed and iirc like 90% of users/people who log in to say vote, save and subscribe to communities are lurkers. Hell, I’ve been “lurking” since I’ve signed up.

        Since there’s such a spike in users, and prior to the Reddit death, most users were power users. I’m surprised that the active user ratio didn’t decrease. (My 90% lurker figure would give a 0.1 ratio). The fact it near increased by .05 instead is wild.