• assassin_aragorn@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    On the one hand, this doesn’t seem like a lot. But on the other, this is just for June. A lot of people left or drastically cut down their usage at the very end of June, and we’re not seeing this reflected in the data yet.

    Even so, no company wants to say they’ve lost 3% of their customers. With 1.7 billion total, that’s still 51 million people. It’s a notable loss, especially for a company trying to become profitable and have an IPO.

  • EnderWi99in@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    July is the real indicator with API being turned off on June 30th. I don’t think the protests themselves had a big enough drop off, but I have to assume a lot of folks have either left or use only desktop currently once that happened.

  • drturtle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    This is for June. Third party apps were still working, and personally I didn’t change my Reddit browsing habit much during June. Now that third party apps are officially dead, I’ve been on Reddit a lot less, and been spending more time on Lemmy. Curious to see what the numbers look like for July.

    • zepheriths@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      A large number of people joined Lemmy before July. The user based for Lemmy jumped by 1600% if I remember right before July 1st

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 years ago

      There are soooo many GPT comments and threads on Reddit, at least when I left on the first. I imagine it’s going to get worse and worse now.

    • serenai@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      Reddit started with nothing but sock puppet accounts created by the devs, so I could definitely see them doing the same thing to show “activity”.

  • candyman337@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    That may sound like not a lot, but Facebook as been hemorraging users for a few years now, if they’re losing users at about the same rate as Facebook, that’s a big oof.

    • doggle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I think the big deal will be if it’s sustained. Losing a bunch of users for a month isn’t a big deal if they come back, or at least stop leaving. If Reddit loses 3% of its users every month for a year then things will be pretty dire for them.

      Can’t say I’ve got much sympathy for Reddit, though.

  • SulaymanF@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I suspect half that drop is from me alone, lol.

    Reddit lost a LOT of their power users. Even if the general traffic isn’t that badly dented, it means a lot of the best content and conversations will not go back. Reddit will spiral down to a 9gag clone.

    • patachu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I lurk the frontpage occasionally and I’ve already noticed the Reddit atmosphere has gotten … weird.

      Little-known, content-churning subreddits are bubbling to the top because of all the other blackouts and desertions. Fringe viewpoints and wacko opinions that would normally get downvoted to the bottom of a thread are now out in the open because there’s no voice of reason to hold them back.

      And the kind of people that are still on there, acting as if everything is fine (or, God forbid, better(???) than it was before the revolts) … it’s a very strange place now.

      • catastrophicblues@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 years ago

        There was an r/Apple thread were people were going off about simplicity and just how hard it is to get into and use Lemmy… I am so glad I left lol

        • BillyZane@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 years ago

          I didn’t make an account for awhile because so many people on Reddit were saying that. Once I finally did, I laughed how easy it was.