ElRompeCuloJul 5, 2023

Does anyone know how many people have left Reddit?

https://lemmy.world/post/1067816

Does anyone know how many people have left Reddit? - Lemmy.world

I’ve tried looking online but I’m not savvy enough to find a good answer. I haven’t been on Reddit since June 30, and am interested in seeing the number of people who have migrated. I know the Reddit user base is huge, so idk if it has been enough to hurt the site. Fuck spez.

Show threadCandelestine

It is unlikely that even reddit themselves are able to conclusively answer this, as the protests made many people leave and many other people come or come back.

The userbase “churned” a great deal, which serves to obscure the specifics.

To add to this, if I were spez, and I was bleeding users rapidly, I would be willing to employ bots to inflate my numbers. I sincerely doubt spez is more ethical than I am, and it takes no genius to come up with this idea.

Jul 5, 2023 at 5:14pmWeb
Show threadElRompeCuloJul 5, 2023
Makes sense. Spez will do whatever it takes to make everything seem fine. I want to see the site implode, but I think it’s too big to fail.
Show threadShartacusJul 5, 2023
Reddit has been full of bits for at least a year
Show threadCandelestineJul 5, 2023
It most definitely has. Bots too. (sorry, couldn’t help myself…)
Show threadpipsJul 5, 2023
There’s also people like me who are no longer active but didn’t nuke their accounts. It’d be pretty hard to track.
Show threadspiderJul 5, 2023
Since the protests began, one of the subreddits I used to frequent now has an abnormally high number of comments; this might explain why.