this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
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Everything about Lemmy; bugs, gripes, praises, and advocacy.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I doubt it made a dent. 250k doesn't even register on the map of 100m active users.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It does if those 250k are the ones submitting/creating content.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are they though? I didn't submit posts on reddit. Looking at the front page of lemmy it's missing a lot of the topics and subjects reddit posts about.

I'm not trying to be a downer, I think 250k is great and it's enough to make lemmy 100% replace reddit for me. But I don't think it dents reddit. I talked to my friends and they barely noticed anything except the blackout. I go on reddit all the same communities are still posting and commenting as normal. But saying that when I looked at reddit I realized how much garbage is posted there compared to lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This is it though, of my subreddits that are open, it's just complete trash being posted and a few comments (and even less meaningful comments).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I think that which 250k migrated will eventually end up making quite a significant dent. It isn't the technophobic lurkers that make up the Lemmy early adopters.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's only about 50k active. The rest are all bots.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Basically this. I guess the people leaving Reddit are evened out by simply rounding the resulting values before rendering them into a graph.