Ask Lemmy

I'm not particularly active on the Fediverse, but that's primarily because even my regular Reddit usage had atrophied in the last year or two. I've kinda gotten out of the habit of looking at site aggregators, so that's more likely my problem.

Realistically, who really knows? Reddit isn't going to release numbers, so it's all third-party stuff at this point.

The good thing is, I really don't care. Lemmy/Jerboa catapulted me from feeling bad for people staying on enshittified reddit to not thinking about them at all.

I don't think Reddit will feel a noteworthy sting anytime soon. But that's okay. Like some here have already said, what matters is fediverse ultimately growing big enough for us to have a sizeable group of people to interact with regarding hobbies or any random topic posted here.

Although, I can't move on without whining about the bug or whatever it was that prevented me from commenting anywhere for the last ...almost a month! On rare occasions, I couldn't even see anything on my feed so Lemmy clearly has ways to go in regards to matters outside of its contents.

I will never know because I am never going back to reddit ever.

It looked to me like it strongly depends on which sub. Some are basically unaffected. Some are very different (In a bad way) some are dead.

I wouldn't be surprised if Lemmy got a large bump over the last few weeks, but with how many issues there are on Lemmy in terms of the servers going down and such, I wouldn't be surprised if the daily number of visitors here levels off and possibly even starts to decrease as users get tired of this.

Heck, just to post this comment took about 2 hours to on and off servers showing as being down. I can understand some growing pains as the site grows, but many users won't.

I don't know generally how people have reacted, maybe a lot just quit browsing that type of media altogether. They haven't all flocked to the Fediverse that's for sure. It's grown a lot recently, but before the API mess Reddit had almost a half billion monthly active users. There's like 150k right now between Lemmy and kbin so pretty insignificant in comparison.

I'm pretty sure the quality of posts on Reddit has fallen noticeably, they lost a a good number of mods and people have said it's pretty obvious now.

What I find funny is the favorable references Spez has made to how Elon is running Twitter (X), but thing is it's obvious now Twitter is intentionally being run into the ground. Since Spez is a Elon protégé I guess Reddit is being intentionally run into the ground.

At least when I see them advertising making ads on Facebook everyone is negative to them

It hasnt suffered a lot - so far. But it is like Chinese water torture - drip drip drip, bit by bit it is slowly eroding, some subs far worse affected than others. Most niche subs and local subs are still going strong, but I suspect after a while they will start to collapse one by one as moderators leave and users come here, or to discord or other alternatives

As much as I want to see reddit burn, I think we are more likely to see a slow, almost imperceptible crumbling away

I deleted my account and have gone cold turkey. It sucks not googling stuff with “reddit” at the end because honestly a lot of great answers to things are there

I personally visit Reddit less than I did previously. And from the subs I was part of there does seem to be a drop off in new posts that are not the usual begging for help or complaining about how "x" (not the artist formerly known as Twitter) sucks just to bitch.

So there is still a lot of traffic there and content created, it is just more slanted to the mindless type of content than it was before in my experience.

There was no mass migration (yet). For starters, I'd say that the majority already uses the official Leddit app and does not care (like two out of three people I know who casually browse).

It also doesn't help that some apps like RIF still work in some capacity. At the moment you can still browse non-NSFW, but only logged out, and that's enough for some.

Furthermore, this only reflects mobile usage. I still browse Reddit using old reddit (up until they kill that), but have deleted all my content and refrain from posting new comments.

As much as I want to say we wonnered, we are the vocal minority. Some subs I frequent, like /r/PCMasterRace and /r/leagueoflegends didn't even protest.

Yes, Reddit posts have subjectively felt more repost-y and soulless, but we don't have the insight.

There was no mass migration. Quite a few communities I enjoyed don't even exist in a meaningful way over here. Perhaps after 3rd party apps truly die, awards are gone, and they kill old reddit, but that's a big if, not when.

Seen instance wars, admin egos, random censorship and many other fediverse issue.

Not looking forward to ir anymore to be honest.

When it became clear that Reddit no longer saw me the user to be as valuable as the content I had helped to create, I knew it was time to go. I had been on Reddit for almost twelve years, so I was a bit reluctant at first.

I left reddit for the most part in June.

I deleted my account a few days ago. I also deleted most of my posts before I left. Fuck you Spez!