I’ve tried looking online but I’m not savvy enough to find a good answer. I haven’t been on Reddit since June 30, and am interested in seeing the number of people who have migrated. I know the Reddit user base is huge, so idk if it has been enough to hurt the site. Fuck spez.

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    The Threadiverse (Lemmy & kbin) had less than 10k active users before June. Now there’s more than 126k active users. It doesn’t mean that they all left Reddit, but at least that they are active here since Reddit fucked things up.

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      That’s good to see. I know the first few days that I used Lemmy my feeds were pretty sparse. Now I can endlessly scroll though new content. I hope the growth continues.

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        And now that there is enough to infinite-scroll, that’s enough to satisfy any one user. Of course, it’s true that having more content will allow for a larger number of high quality posts and the ability to serve more niche communities, but at least there is a viable alternative for that Reddit itch now. It’s so much easier to uninstall Reddit apps than it was a month ago.

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          Infinite scrolling requires jerboa to not randomly freeze up…(at least for us mobile app folk)

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          Yeah with lemmy i haven’t even thought about checking Reddit out. I can’t wait for the comment sections here to grow, a lot of posts only have handfuls of comments. I still don’t have the heart to delete Apollo yet, and I’ve caught myself opening the app out of habit. It might be about to time to fill that spot with lemmy.

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      A good chunk of those could’ve made accounts but not stayed long. And how do they get those numbers? Because there were many people who did accounts in more than one instance.

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        Bigger than you think.

        Most people who moved over are more likely to be contributors.

        Only like 1% of redditors ever interact with the platform.

        Instead of looking at ‘how much they lost’ think about ‘how much we gained’. This event has started the network effect for Lemmy.

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          Most people who moved over are more likely to be contributors.

          That’s the key - a relatively small number of people provided the bulk of the content and they are also the kind of power users who would have been hit hard by the API changes, so are most likely to leave.

          Quality over quantity and exactly the kind of people you want to help build a new place like this.

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          Absolutely a good idea to focus on Lemmy’s gains. A viable competitor is up and running now, so Reddit will have to compete or perish.

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        Reddit is among the most popular social media worldwide, with an estimated 55.79 million daily active users and 1.660 billion monthly active users in 2023.

        Yeah, a drop in the bucket. Even considering lurkers and bots.

        But that’s okay. The goal is to have a nice, active enough community outside of reddit. Reddit can keep on existing. I would argue not having everyone move here, or somewhere else, is good to keep the interaction healthy. Let alone the software and servers that couldn’t handle it.