I Reddit exclusively on my desktop now, not on mobile where I did most of my browsing. I also pared back my usage to fewer communities.
I use Discuit primarily now, checking Lemmy (Beehaw mostly) very occasionally.
I lurk but Reddit is completely dead to me. I haven't used it more than once or twice since the API change
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I didn't. However, I read Lemmy until I run out of interesting posts, then switch to reddit until the ads make me angry. Then I do something productive.
i go through phases, around the blackout it was 100% lemmy, then like 25% lemmy, but lately i'm getting really fed up with reddit so it's like 90% lemmy
I mostly have. However I do not spend anywhere near as much time on Lemmy as I did on reddit. When all the third party stuff started going down I really started to assess how I used the Internet and had to change things. I was using Sync for Reddit on Average 2.5 hours a day which is just insane. Over the course of a decade it was like a year of real time and was really eye opening how much time I was wasting.
Now I set an app timer for Sync for Lemmy for 1 hour a day I rarely hit it.
I do check reddit, but I do not have an app installed, it's mostly to check something specific rather than endlessly scroll.
When the blackout started I deleted sync for reddit and a month ago I heard of lemmy, and now I'm back on sync, but for lemmy this time
This is actually an interesting question. First thing to note is that any estimation is by accounts, not by actual people (one person can have multiple alts on both). Honestly I don’t think it’s possible to have meaningful estimation.
That said, I think the first task is to figure out if we can estimate the number of accounts deleted on Reddit during the controversial period (let’s say April when the API change was starting) up til now.
I’m not aware whether there’s public daily data on it from Reddit, but there have been attempts at archiving reddit during this time and of course before. So one can theoretically use the archives to find out “all” existing users. And check the links now via browser (or curl) to see if they still exist, treat that as a good-enough proxy for deleted account.
One may get an estimate of when they were deleted by checking the links in the archives if possible. If not, there’s also Wayback machine that we may use to get a sense, but there are limitations of that.
Lemmy tracks account registration daily, I believe. I don’t know what stats one needs to run but maybe if we can line up the time series of account creation on Lemmy and account deletion on Reddit, we might have some sense of what a lower bound is for those who jumped ship forever.
I'll follow a relevant search result, but I have not browsed it since coming over here.
sour was here ._.
I dropped reddit on mobile, but on desktop i still use it from time to time. Although i was never really a heavy user to begin with.
It depends on your definition of "dropped." Most people who moved from Reddit to Lemmy don't fall into the category of deleting their account and switching over 100%, rather Lemmy has filled the role of Reddit for most but not all of their browsing.
i did personally
I use Lemmy to browse, and Reddit for search. E.g. If I want to checkout general online stuff people are discussing/sharing this is the place. If I want to look up frying pan recommendations I google "reddit le creuset"
i only use Reddit for technical questions on communities that don't exist on Lemmy or are inactive. I'm not using Reddit anymore for browsing but I'm not gonna artificially limit myself from that great resource for some performative activism
I am read ~70% lemmy vs 30% reddit. In my opinion this is because community is important. And reddit-community still be a big and active 🤷🏻♂️
I did. 💀
I did that too and don't regret it ;)
I changed my reddit link to lemmy but kept the snoo symbol.
I don't really visit too much, I will sweep by a few times a week or so. Reddit I only go to when Google takes me there, which is often enough thst I had to install the official turd of an app.
But I do t have a user over there anymore, so I am not logged in.
Not all communities I want to follow made the transition. I'm still on Reddit for HFY, and some smaller game communities.
But Lemmy has replaced a sizable chunk of my Reddit usage, especially around more technical topics.
Me and you can check my reddit account under the same name.
I'm Spartacus!
Some number, likely greater than 0.
I did. Haven't visited reddit since Sync stopped working. Should probably drop by and delete my account.
+1 for me