If even 1% of the people leave Reddit for lemmy it will be a win and probably enough for it to grow organically in the coming months. If even 10% had come over, lemmy would have probably buckled under 10s of millions of users all at once and the experience would have been awesome with like 3% uptime.

I'm not catholic so technically

I still use Reddit on the computer but most of my mobile use is gone.

Lemmy has exploded in popularity over the last few weeks, that is the mass exodus that most people are talking about.

People have become more open to "testing the waters" of other apps. Sure they are still using Reddit and Twitter etc... but many have also started playing with lemmy, mastodon etc... I have no idea where this will end up but there is a shift of willingness to try something else and that is good start.

More of a small diaspora sort of situation I think, at least relative to the amount of people that use Reddit.

As to where besides Lemmy/Kbin, there's some mentions across similar discussions of going to Tildes, Squabbles.io, Raddle, Discord, and I'd suspect a tiny minority may have gone back to plain old forums and some may be working on setting some up (e.g. Jellyfin's devs went ahead & did so). If I were to guess without hard numbers, I would guess that the majority that made any move may have simply gone to Discord, with another large amount giving Lemmy/Kbin a go, and a smaller amount of folks going to the others mentioned (i.e. Tildes/Squabbles/Raddle/other forums or trying to set up forums).

No, it's absolutely not a mass exodus. The people who cared about what reddit was doing were the vast minority of it's userbase.

Reddit had already written us off because they knew not enough people would leave for it to matter. It's not like the C-suite are idiots.

While I think we can agree it’s not a mass exodus, and as a percentage it’s fractional, I would be really curious on the relative percentage of mods and higher activity users.

I wouldn’t be surprised if these were proportionally higher than the total percentage as they would be more attuned to what was happening.

@anarchoplayworker I don't have any number but I do come here from time to time when I'm on laptop. Hope there will be a good app for iOS soon.

It's all relative.

For lemmy it's been a mass exodus. I was on this part of the fediverse before all this, and it's a fundamentally different thing now than it was. There were maybe a dozen servers, most of them didn't have a whole lot going on. Now there's millions of active users on thousands of servers.

That might not be a mass exodus for reddit, but it sure is one for lemmy.

I deleted my account the other day actually, once the backup was complete. I'm sure most will stay on Reddit but honest Lemmy is better off. Sure, there isn't as much content but most of the content on Reddit isn't really worth any one's time anyway.

New communities are popping up all the time here and it's great to see.

Doesn’t matter if it’s a mass exodus. If we want to use that word: It’s not like all of Egypt left Egypt because of the Pharaoh…this is still a good place to be in. Away from the pettiness I see in the main media.

The total number of users across all Lemmy instances is about half a million, from memory? There was a post about it not so long ago. A quick google's search shows Reddit has 55 million daily active users.

It's fuck all, at least for now.

I joined right around the blackout, and the amount of content, especially content I enjoy has increased considerably. Everytime I open the app there are new things to read, which definitely wasn't the case a month ago.

So mass exodus, nah, even if every new user of Lemmy, Kbin and all the other alternatives left Reddit completely we're a single digit percentage at most. But mass adoption, definitely. With the smaller user base pre-apiexit its much easier to notice all the new contributing users.