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Is there any evidence that Reddit has suffered at all from the exodus to Lemmy? (lemmy.world)

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Was there even a mass exodus? I largely avoid Reddit now, but I do kind of doubt that they've been hurt in any meaningful way by all the protests and people leaving...

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[+] AccidentalLemming@lemmy.world 410 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 191 points 1 year ago

Migration goes beyond sheer numbers. The 3.8k users are probably the one that were the most attached to initial Reddit, hence people who would contribute the more. I would rather be with those 3.8k users than the millions of people okay with staying on Reddit despite Spez's decisions.

I hope that once Lemmy is a bit more polished (instance blocking, account migration, hot filtering working etc.), we will gradually see a second wave of arrivals.

[-] Dookie_howser@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Or those 3.8k users were on Apollo, RIF etc that didn’t bring any revenue to Reddit regardless.

They could care less about these users leaving, there are plenty of new angsty teenagers to take their place

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 17 points 1 year ago

If they're the same that generated significantly more content, then it's still a loss for reddit

It doesn't really matter, though. The fact that I'm here and not using reddit has netted a huge improvement in my happiness.

To be honest, I don't really care if more reddit users come here. They can keep their bad takes and dick-swinging contests on reddit.

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago

A very good point. To be honest, if they are happy with that new demographic, and we are happy here, everyone's happy

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