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Reddit Activity Plummeted After The Protests (www.garbageday.email)
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Most major subreddits show a decrease of between 50 and 90 percent in average daily posts and comments, when compared to a year ago. This suggests the problem is way fewer users, not the same number of users browsing less. The huge and universal dropoff also suggests that people left, either because of the changes or the protests, and they aren’t coming back.

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[–] June@lemm.ee 43 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Other than Lemmy, where did users go?

[–] OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 53 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Outside lol.

I'm honestly curious too.

They obviously didn't all come here. I wonder how many we're talking about. Maybe they just sort of dispersed into the various other social media sites?

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the vast majority of "users" either came to Lemmy, Kbin, or Mastodon. There were a surprisingly small amount of users that weren't bots, and were content generators, either in OC, or comments.

I suspect many, if not most, of the bots got turned off, only to be replaced by enshittified bots. It's way too obvious who's a bot on Reddit now. Prior to the migration, it was much more difficult to identify a bot over there.

[–] FleetingTit@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago

/r/outside ? I thought people left reddit /s

[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Likely Discord, playing games, outside... a few perhaps to oldschool forums.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago

I know one of my friends is using dedicated forums like stack overflow now

[–] EnglishMobster@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Yep, I'm pretty confident people went to Discord, TikTok, YouTube, Tumblr, HackerNews, Tildes, Discuit, etc.

Obviously not everyone came here, but it seems people spread out a lot more and don't spend time on any one site.

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I’ve probably been on Reddit 5 times since they killed the apps.

I’m S ranking Cuphead over and over again on my Steam deck. I’ll probably be doing that 20 years from now.

Nothing soothes me like that game, which is crazy because it’s frustrating as hell. Oh but that feeling when you get hit right after you hear “KNOCKOUT” is unbeatable.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 years ago

Discord, Instagram, Telegram, (fark :P) would be my guesses.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Bluesky, Mastodon, the wide array of reddit knockoffs like squabblr and hubski

[–] Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 years ago

The library

[–] OCATMBBL@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I started learning guitar again with the additional time, after a 13 year period of not taking it seriously.

I've seen improvements in Sight reading General dexterity Fretboard layout comprehension Clarity (less buzz/fuzz)

Thanks for being trash, reddit. It was exactly what I needed to get my ass moving and doing something more worthwhile.

[–] jigsaw250@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I started playing chess again. I'm ass at it, but hopefully I'll get much better with time. And if not, at least it's a nice little distraction from everything else.

[–] LoganNineFingers@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

I read more now tbh

[–] forgotmylastusername@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Private chat rooms has been my guess for a number of years. The internet got too public. Big boards aren't practical anymore.