How many people actually dropped Reddit for Lemmy?

Not sure but add 1 to the count.

There are dozens of us. DOZENS!

Since Reddit is fun was killed I refuse to go back. You don't kill a damn near perfect UI and get to keep my internet traffic.

My wife and I haven’t been back on since Apollo shutdown. I was/am so pissed about that shit. Fucking assholes.

I haven't been back to Reddit since the first day of protests.

Not gonna lie though, I miss it. The niche stuff I went to Reddit for in the first place came here during the drama, but despite an initial push to get some replacement communities going here, they've gone almost completely inactive now.

According to Google trends, the people who left are an insignificantly small number, Reddit has still grown in search popularity over the last year. However, if you've browsed Reddit since the shutdown, you know that this isn't the whole story, engagement and quality are both down.

Dropped Reddit and never went back.

Edit: Gotta take the flow and promote !bassment@feddit.de while this post is hot. A community for Bass-Guitar players I've been building since the Reddit blackout. Come join us!

Count me in. I do really miss Reddit though and Lemmy is nowhere near as interesting as Reddit. But no one said protesting is easy.

Sure it is possible to estimate, but the chance the estimate is any better than a guess is pretty much zero.

The only definite number I have is one.

I did. Said I'd be leaving when they did the API thing and stuck with it. Missed reddit for a week and then moved on. Sync for Lemmy is fine. Lemmy is quieter but there's also less bullshit.

I did. To all the people on Reddit who confidently said "you'll be back in a few days" turns out you were very wrong lmao

I stopped using Reddit on my phone, which was most of my Reddit time, but I still use it on my PC.

On mobile I exclusively browse Lemmy.

I would totally migrate completely to Lemmy, but the general audience here is a bit too... radicalised for me. Sometimes I just want to relax, read some interesting link and interact in the comments.

I had been using Relay for Reddit for years, and they didn't shut down like other third party apps, so I made a Lemmy account as a backup plan and then continued using both Lemmy and Reddit for a while.

Then the creator of Relay announced that they couldn't afford to continue service as it was and would be migrating toward a monthly subscription-based service to stay alive. That day, I moved to Lemmy and never went back. As much as I'd love to pay someone else just to stick it to Reddit's CEO, I felt that getting financially invested in a failing website just wasn't worth it in the long run. Besides, Sync for Lemmy had just been released and it was a familiar experience. I had used Sync for Reddit before I discovered Relay for Reddit.

Lemmy (and the fediverse as a whole) is much better than Reddit anyway. There are enough people here to have fresh content every day and I'm still discovering interesting niche subs (magazines? I'm still not sure what they call the categories here). There's also not too many people here, so when I find an interesting topic to comment on (like this one), it's not already 5,000+ comments deep. Nothing more demoralizing than commenting on a popular topic and getting absolutely no reaction from the community. No comments, no upvotes or downvotes. Makes me feel like I wasted my time trying to add my two cents to a conversation, and I tend to delete those comments later.

And if I run out of things to browse on Lemmy... oh well. It keeps me from being stuck on my phone all day. A smaller community means the feed isn't endless, so it keeps me from doom-scrolling all day and night. I much prefer it here, and I'm officially done with Reddit.

Said bye bye ever since the blackout, haven't been back. RIP RIF

Once RIF was out I haven't looked back.

Me. The way the API thing was handled just pissed me off too much to log in or contribute there anymore. I do occasionally load the "old." version of the site up and read some of the specialized communities. I'd been there since the mass migration from Digg.

Lemmy is too slow with new content (my Lemmy frontpage has 2-3+ day old posts) and there are fewer interesting comments to engage.

I do think reddit's frontpage is noticeably worse off now, but I wish there was some metric to see how that looks statistically.

Hopefully Lemmy continues to grow.

After reading @StarkillerX42@lemmy.ml's comment, I'm not sure if there is a way to estimate.

I do think we can reliably say: Not enough. However, it's pretty cozy here so I don't mind for now.

I don't know what the numbers are but I haven't gone back minus the occasional google search that pulls up a Reddit post in the results. Even then, I use my browser without logging in.

Check. I'm here not there anymore.

But, I do have something to say about the lemmy experience. It's not that there's less. There is but i don't think that an issue.

What I do have an issue with is the insane amount of politically charged posts. It's almost making me return to that other place.

Like I get it, the rich should all die horrible deaths, you're socialist, not communist, you do support freedom just not capitalism.

Aren't we all deep down inside socialists?

I mean jesus started it, we've been spoon fed it for 2k years. It's just that We're all also greedy and egoistic sacks of shit so there are some weaving flaws in that system.

Great. Can we now get back to real content? Let's not talk about politics. Let's talk about world issues, Foss, games, books, movies, news (Libya, morroco) I dunno anything but politics.

Politics and religion never unite. Fun stuff and real tragedy does.

I've almost completely stoped using Reddit, I only see it if I find it in a web search and it has an answer I'm looking for, this community is amazing, btw.

Me! I'll still end up on Reddit occasionally from Google searches for stuff but I very much appreciate having a place to mindlessly scroll and read which isn't capitalistic

Once sync went down I deleted my account and moved. Haven't been back since.

I'm smart enough to know you're looking for a calculated estimate, yet dumb enough to add "I did it" for you to add to your count. Happy counting!

I dropped Reddit but my Lemmy usage certainly isn't what my Reddit usage was. I wish more of the websites I frequented had their own forums like the old days.

Hardly use reddit anymore. Won't lie, Lemmy doesn't seem to be anywhere near as rich in content but its a blessing in disguise because I mindlessly scroll less.

I just switched from Sync to Sync. The transition was bumpy but I'm still on Sync.

The second I couldn't use RIF I was out of there. Accidentally went there twice or thrice and instantly noped from all the ads.

That doesn't matter. People look for revenge on numbers and will like to see Reddit burn and fail.

But that is not what is important. You don't need to justify your decision by looking at how much Reddit loses, but if you are happy here in Lemmy.

The same goes if you left Twitter and switched to Mastodon. It's like feeling better if your ex is doing worse after you get apart. Empty satisfaction imo

I quit with the death of RiF.

I left and haven't been back since they killed off 3rd party apps. I was a Sync user on Reddit and now that there's Sync for Lemmy I can't really tell the difference except for some of the content here and there.

Tbh I dont think that the traffic data Ive seen suggests that there was a long term drop but subjectively the content on a lot of subs has dried up substantially. It seems like people still go there but the actual content being made is just a trickle compared to what it used to be

I did! But as for estimates of people, you could probably compare total daily users in like, March to total daily users today, and that eould get you most of the way there

Me. I can use Sync for Lemmy .

As soon as they announced the recent API changes, jumped ship, never looked back

I've not been there since a month before the apps were borked.

I've been looking in when I need info, by searching and ending up there, but I've not looked at Reddit by habit since.

I did so by Nielson ratings logic about 2400 of us?

I did. Fuck reddit.

I did. Way less content, but higher quality content.

I was mostly a lurker so my dropping it didn't have much impact other than deleting a decade old account. If there's niche knowledge or communities I might still look (if it comes up in search results) but the urge to do so voluntarily is gone.

I was a heavy reddit user. Don't go there anymore. I'm done. There's just a moral line that was crossed, and that's that. Same with facebook. It's over. Now it's the constant fight to keep google at bay, but that's what it is.

I cut my Reddit usage by about 90%. I never intend to fully quit while it still offers things I can't get anywhere else.

Lemmy gives me the dose of random scrolling I want and Reddit gives me specific info I need

I made the switch after the API.changes. i wasn't about to endure a bullshit interface. Also. It's been 10~ years of using reddit, as an adult looking to grow, it was time to find new and strange pastures. Lemmy may not be where we all end up, but its a journey and so far being an 'Internet forum surfer' from AOL 4.0 days. things have been a wild ride

I left when Apollo died. Never went back.

I have only been back a handful of times in the browser. Usually when information I need is only on reddit. From someone who used reddit for hours and hours a day I'm shocked how little I miss it. I'm glad it went down the toilet.

No Appolo, no reddit for me. I will still go to searches that link there.

I actually use both. Reddit to watch or partake in nonsensical angry at the internet posts and Lemmy for real discussion in a niche that I fancy.
Lemmy feels like Reddit did 10 years ago.

I'm now spending 90% of my shit scrolling time here instead of Reddit (using Sync mainly) and I love it!

I haven't been back. I suspect that may be true for many regular users of Lemmy.

I still have my account on Reddit, but have not logged in since the API events.
Very happy to have found Lemmy, with great content and great people.

Same about going from Twitter to Mastodon.

I was using Reddit Is Fun on mobile and a heavily curated desktop feed and migrated here fully when RiF died.

When I've looked at Reddit on desktop, it feels like a shadow of it's former self in so far as some of the default subs are missing and others just seem filled with the same content reach time I've looked.

While the place won't die overnight, it will become more overrun with bots and karma farmers posting same content over and over.

I made the switch when RiF died. In all honesty I wish it wasn't necessary, because the niche communities here are a shadow of what Reddit had before the blackouts. And while Reddit had trolls just like Lemmy, it was big enough that you didn't have to share general spaces with them.

I did. RIF stopped working

I left Reddit after 14 years. Was really sad to see what it had changed into over time.

Left after RiF went down. Stuck with Lemmy, mostly because my consumption of useless doomscrolling was in need of a reduction. Still here, even if lemmy does have a stark difference in user interaction compared to Reddit. This place is slightly less toxic overall, and I think that's worth something.

I stopped using Reddit the moment sync for Reddit died, I occasionally end up in the website when I'm googling for a tech problem

You might find your responses here a bit biased.

I haven't been back since RIF died.

I still visit Reddit, but I stopped participating- I don't post, comment, or vote.

Now that sync works with lemmy, I pretty much forgot about reddit. I wish there were the same communities, but I figure it's just a matter of time.

Well, theres only one way to find out. Ill start:

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Ex Apollo user here. Dropped Reddit as soon as Apollo shut down and haven’t looked back. Occasionally a Reddit post will return in my search but that’s about it for Reddit.

I dropped and deleted the account. Only time I go to Reddit now is if I am searching for something and a Reddit link is part of the search and happen to have the answer I need.

I check Lemmy everyday before going to bed, only time I use reddit is when it comes up in web search results for my queries. I’ll use reddit again if they announce fair pricing for 3rd party apps as I miss my small communities there.

I left out of principle but there are a few communities I'll scan from time to time because they don't quite exist here and I don't have the energy to make it myself.

Ditched reddit the moment 3rd party apps stopped working. I'm rooting for Lemmy to grow. I especially n hope that nieche communities feel less dead in the future.

I have to stop by there every now and then because I'm looking for something and the answer is on a reddit post.

But for daily chilling/posting I'm all for Lemmy.

I never came back after the protests. I don't understand the people who said "why should I care if I don't use 3rd party apps". After seeing reddit's true colors on full display, I didn't want anything more to do with that company.

I've cut my reddit consumption drastically but I haven't dropped it completely. There are two communities that I still check out a few times per week and I still Google "what is the best ______ reddit" or "how do I do ______ reddit" when I need to. But I'm never scrolling r/all anymore.

Me. Probably wouldn't have stayed this long if it wasn't for the Sync app. There's just no other good Reddit-like app.

I spent 99% of my time on Reddit through Sync. When they decided to restrict API use, which killed third-party apps, I decided I was done. If the Sync dev didn't switch over to making a Lemmy app, I probably never would have heard about it. I've only gone to Reddit a handful of times since, and that's only because I was searching for something and a Google search took me to a Reddit thread.

Deleted my account on Reddit and never went fuck. Fuck Reddit and fuck Spez.

I did. Once sync was out it was a pretty easy transition. I just wanted an app to scroll mindlessly for a couple minutes a day, and Lemmy does the job. The content stream is a lot slower, but for low usage users like myself, it's fine.

That said, from what I've gleaned from other threads, it still seems like most people still use Reddit in some capacity.

I did

Haven’t been back since I deleted my account after the blackout. No Apollo, no Reddit.

Look at the user figures for Lemmy instances and it becomes very clear that the number of people using Lemmy isn't even in the hundreds if thousands. So yes I'd say it is possible to estimate that less than 100k people made the switch.

I never use reddit unless someone sends me a link for something specific (that someone could be google) - I don't have their app installed and I never go to them naturally...I probably see 1 reddit post a week on average.

I use both. Lemmy by deafult. Reddit for the few very specific communites Lemmy is lacking . Also questions go to Lemmy since beacuse lemmy is smaller pepole are actually answering you instead of ignoring your questions or mods deleting them beacuse this belongs to the daily thread for small questions or the similars.

I definitely left. I still occasionally lurk on Reddit but I never post or vote anymore. Real shame, because I really want to share my Factorio Bob's+Angels (much harder and more complicated mod of Factorio) victory on r/factorio, but I won't because of Spez's actions.

I definitely did, but I know barely anyone else who did.

I gave up reddit. When Infinity announce a subscription I was done. I didn't want go through all the hassle getting an app key in whatever way when this is easy. Also Reddit CEO is a piece of crap, like pretty much all CEOs.

I did as soon as Sync came out.

I've deleted all my reddit accounts and haven't added any new content to reddit since I switched, Though I must admit I still end up there from time to time when I search for specific things.. mostly related to niche topics. I use Lemmy for mindless browsing, news, laughs, etc.

I didn't fully drop Reddit but I use it significantly less.

+1

I did.

I was a sync user. Waited until the last day. Been quite until recently. I think I've had more conversations here then in my four years with Reddit. Something about the sizes of the communities made it hard to feel like a part of the conversation.

Full time Lemmy conversion here. I will never go back

Purged my main account by editing every post and reply. Then deleated all of them. Then deleated the account. . There are bots to do that automatically and make it easy.

I still have a NSFW account that Is exclusively used for NSFW stuff. I kept that one, but honestly that will probably be gone soon too. The vast majority of NSFW subreddits just feel like a bunch of only fans actors trying to self promote. Nothing against them or onlyfans, but I have no interest in it and would rather see stuff from people that are just having some fun. Not trying to make a living doing it.

I deleted my 11year reddit account

I did once Infinity stopped working

I switched.

I left and haven't been back, I won't even click on a link from a search engine for them. That's how I roll.

I have. Lemmy is especially good for content geared towards news, tech, FOSS, privacy, memes (if, unlike me, Reddit-style memes are your thing), et cetera. For me, that checks off all the boxes for what i used Reddit for, so when i started using Lemmy, there wasn't really anything i was missing from Reddit. So, while i'm willing to miss out on some content in order to drop Reddit, i haven't really needed to.

However, this definitely isn't the case for most people. If people are just using Reddit for certain things they just don't see on Lemmy, that's totally fine (though i hope they're using an ad blocker or something), especially if they stick around for when Lemmy does start having that kind of content.

Growth isn't a straight line and there will be points of fluctuation, stagnation, and decline.

First tried Lemmy during the blackouts, never went back to reddit after Boost stopped working

I fucking did. Long live 196

I left reddit for good. I will not knowingly enhance reddits traffic stats on principle for the crap spez pulled. Everyone should do the same.

I did. And I did it exclusively because of reddit sync. I used that app to browse reddit during my decade plus old account. Once reddit sync left, the app maker said he's moving to lemmy. I never even heard of lemmy until then. Now I'm here on sync.

I left and haven't looked back. Honestly with the consistent growth of lemmy there's been now need.

Present ✋

I only lurked on Reddit through third party apps. Now I am permanently here, and I can comment and post with good conscience too!

I refuse to use their shitty app, but I still use old reddit on the desktop. If they remove old.reddit.com, I will probably not use it at all.

On mobile, I tried a few apps. Lemmy feels very empty and devoid of content and communities. Mastodon is not that interesting. I feel that hacker news is the best alternative right now. Even though it doesn't have that many users, the fact that it has a single "community" helps it feel far less empty, and more focused towards technical people.

I've stopped using it on mobile entirely, but still use Reddit for some communities like r/bash and the like, or otherwise things related to my job -- though, only on desktop.

That said, I'd like to fully move off of the platform eventually.

I dropped mobile reddit for Lemmy. I still use reddit on my PC, but never on my mobile devices.

I did. Fuck reddit.

Still using reddit read-only through Libreddit but I don't even check it every day anymore.

I hit up my niche self-hosted and Linux subs, take a peek at /r/all, get immediately put off by all the bot content and toxicity, and come right back to Lemmy.

Count me as one. I haven't been back since sync went dark. I do get frustrated with not being able to find that niche information/answer to a question by adding site:Reddit to a search though - I know it's my choice though

I now mostly use Reddit to tell people about Lemmy

i'll occasionally go back and browse on desktop only but i don't interact. all interaction is here along with most of my browsing

I only used baconreader, and so did my wife. So no more reddit for us.

We could estimate this by randomly sampling some Lemmy users, with the following questions:

• did you use Reddit before?
• did you stop using Reddit?

And then comparing it with the total amount of Lemmy users.

left reddit completely and found a replacement for every community I am interested in. i love lemmy

I did, it wasn't easy but I'm here.

I only looked at Reddit on Sync so when that stopped working I stopped visiting Reddit. Now I look at Lemmy on Sync but not as much

I only go back when a site like this or /v/ links me back.

I sure did. I was already tired of their terrible moderation policies and the arbitrary power some mods abused all to hell. Good riddance.

I dropped reddit for sure, but can't say I'm exactly an avid Lemmy user. There just isn't enough things I'm interested in. I pop in every once in a while but I'll probably drop this too soon. I have absolutely no idea how I will even get any news, since I don't watch tv, and that kinda scares me. On the other hand, I started reading books again, which I hadn't touched ever since I became a redditor

Dropped Reddit since the beginning of the protest waves. But most importantly, due to this, my screen time plummeted from 10h per day to 2 or 3 hours.

I did. Occasionally visit old.reddit.com put of nostalgia, but never logged in, never controbute. It's not as busy here, but i like it. Lemmy has an OG nerd feeling to it.

I deleted my reddit account and browse lemmy daily. I do miss a few subs on reddit concerning ancient greece/greek and corvids, but it is what it is. I'm fairly satisfied with lemmy.

I did! They banned my account after a dispute with a Mod claiming I was being islamaphobic for asking about professor who was killed for supposedly showing a picture of Muhammad (which later turned out the daughter lied about) by a girl's father who was mad man who claimed Islam. The post was praising Islam for being a religion of peace and anyone who said differently didn't understand... so I asked about that case.... got banned from the sub.. argued with the mod, who then reported.e for harassment to the Reddit team and boom, permanently banned, no appeal option... My four year account and 97k karma gone.. then they banned my Alt account because of my phone IP address... I was so pissed.. tried VPNs too.. no good after a while..

Then I googled reddit alternatives, and a few scrolls down, I saw a forum from lemmy discusing how it had just launched as the reddit alternative and to try it.. I am glad I did. I like this better.. I wish there was more content though.. I love certain shows and love discussion about them. Like MTV the challenge or what we do in the shadows... Lemmy is so new, it doesn't have all those communitys just yet but I am happy to be here and watch the site grow.

I really don't think there's a way to estimate. Personally, as a long term Sync user, I switched even before Sync was reddit for Lemmy. There's no real way to measure it though.

I dropped it completely. It was a garbage dump.

Left when Infinity went sub. I just couldn't get over how bad reddits default app was. When searching around for something else I saw conversations about lemmy and got interested. Decided to dive in with Sync and now I've been only using this. Still have Geddit to open any links I have to open if they are reddit links but overall it's been a great experience so far. With all new things might take a bit for community to grow.

I started my own instance and haven't touched Reddit since, except sometimes as search results. But I don't browse, login, etc.

Well, I dropped reddit because rif stopped working. Whether it was "for Lemmy" is kind of a "for now" thing. Something better comes along and I'm likely to migrate there (or use it in addition).

Same here, for me it was when I saw how Spez was treating mods that I pulled out.

Also obligatory “Boost Gang 🙌”

I use reddit only 2-3 times a month since the kill of third party apps.

This one. Second my app stopped working I never went back. Have been an avid daily contributor for a decade.

Only on Reddit for a couple communities. But, Lemmy kind of became my main Social site overall. Replaced all of them for me.

I dropped reddit and facebook. Don't miss them much.

I wasn't sure whether I should completely drop Reddit, but now, after a month on Lemmy I can say that I stopped using Reddit

It's all the New users on Lemmy since June 2023

Dropped reddit. Have been using Fediverse apps since.

Sort of. I had an account but I'd posted like 3 times one one topic in 2017. Never logged back in. Started using the terrible app in the last year but didn't care enough to find or use a better 3rd party app.

Decided to not use it during the blackout, read a suggestion to use Jerboa app.

Haven't looked back. How dare they take away my right to procrastinate on improving my own user experience.

+1 here 🙋🏽‍♂️

I also finally received my data archive from Twitter. For weeks, the verification emails weren't being delivered. When they were, the codes had expired. Repeat. I have no proof to indicate this was a way of locking me in, but it seems suspicious because it had never happened before.

For me, it's not about being petty or spiteful against these platforms just for the hell of it. It's just that I'm tired of their unethical business model. Hostile practices. Their lock-in. Lack of interoperability. The user hostility.

It's not good for us, it's only good for the platform, which then only serves to give that platform more power, which means more user abuse, enshittification, etc.

Feels good to not contribute to that and not continue digging that hole, as well as invest in a better web for all of us.

I still read Reddit sometimes, but I don't have an account anymore. It's like reading Facebook posts now. Really, really low quality content. It's sad, but I like the community here. Lemmy is more like what Reddit was 15ish years ago.

I think we should focus on quality and thoughtful discussion. I appreciate stupid memes too, but if it were up to me that would be secondary - even if overall popularity takes a hit.

Also, less concern over Reddit would be nice. I was there from the Digg exodus until the API drama, so I understand the change aspect quite well, but if genuine conversation is what matters to you, the correct people are here now.

lemmy publishes activate user data, im pretty sure most or all came from reddit, but no way to know how many still active there