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Sound Off: How many 10+ year redditors have left the site? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was just browsing a thread on c/nfl looking for new mods. There were multiple 12+ year Redditors there offering to help.

Got me wondering. There are 14,000 of us in this community. How many of us are ten year plus users who have just had enough?

Edit: I didn't expect this post to be as poignant as it became. There are so many of you... I can't reply to everyone. I'm an 11 year user and have modded something like 150 subs over the years. I'm really sad too, but I'm finding that lemmy has most of the content I'm looking for, just needs more comments.

The API was a big blow, but removing awards on past posts and deleting coin balances is really dumb.

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (1 children)

16yrs My account was older than my kid. It feels like some weird breakup. At times I miss it but I feel better for moving on. Lemmy feels like early reddit did so I'm hopeful that the community will continue to grow.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

The growth metrics are really interesting. Half year active users continue to steadily climb, however I believe based on the monthly active users being plateued (and even in mild decline) that this will level off in the near future unless something sparks another wave of migration.

Meanwhile, I think there are two things to be taken from the slow decline of monthly active users now that the big migration is behind us. I think we're seeing three things

Some people tried lemmy or kbin and didn't have an experience to keep them around. Maybe they didn't understand how the federation of communities worked and they ended up leaving because they didn't like that there was [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected]. maybe it was bugs (this whole ecosystem is in an alpha state). Maybe it was simply choice of instance giving them an overall negative impression of the Threadiverse. And maybe it was just that their favorite niche communities moved to other platforms, or didn't move at all
People who took some time to find the right instance from them have settled into their preferred instance
The Threadiverse has reached a critical mass, and will continue to be a thriving and active community even if the growth will slow down to a more nature curve for the time to come

I also do foresee more migrations in our future. I know multiple friends who are waiting for their favorite apps (Sync and Boost in their cases) to be ported over. We've probably already experienced our biggest mass migration, but I'd say overall the past two months have been a win for the Threadiverse