Reddit users lost?

andxze@reddthat.com to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 356 points –

Do we at this point have any substantial data on just how many users Reddit actually lost due to this?

Any resources would be greatly appreciated.

As a sidenote, I'll add that they certainly lost my account the second I couldn't use RiF anymore.

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I definitely think getting interested in the fediverse is a long game. Think the death of Facebook. It was a slow burn between 2016 and 2020, involving lots of different communities moving at different times for different reasons

But...Facebook isn't dead. I mean it's dead to me, but it's still going quite strong.

Really? Feels like a graveyard when I log in. I mean everyone over 65 still uses it and there are a lot of weird holdouts but all my friends moved over to instagram, which is so much worse than facebook ever was IMO

People like Instagram over Facebook because it's much, much harder to share links to ragebait on Instagram.

The secret sauce though is that one out of every 3 reels is ragebait. just a different kind that you cant get away from because you're so addicted to the scroll feature

I mean it's dead to me

Exactly. Whether or not Facebook or Reddit or Netflix or Twitter survive, thrive, or perish is irrelevant to me.

What matters is that they won't profit off my data, they won't sell any ads from my activity, and they won't get a penny more of subscription money out of me.

If others wish to continue diving down those rabbit holes, that's on them.