• EnderWi99in@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    July is the real indicator with API being turned off on June 30th. I don’t think the protests themselves had a big enough drop off, but I have to assume a lot of folks have either left or use only desktop currently once that happened.

  • candyman337@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    That may sound like not a lot, but Facebook as been hemorraging users for a few years now, if they’re losing users at about the same rate as Facebook, that’s a big oof.

    • doggle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I think the big deal will be if it’s sustained. Losing a bunch of users for a month isn’t a big deal if they come back, or at least stop leaving. If Reddit loses 3% of its users every month for a year then things will be pretty dire for them.

      Can’t say I’ve got much sympathy for Reddit, though.

  • drturtle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    This is for June. Third party apps were still working, and personally I didn’t change my Reddit browsing habit much during June. Now that third party apps are officially dead, I’ve been on Reddit a lot less, and been spending more time on Lemmy. Curious to see what the numbers look like for July.

    • zepheriths@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      A large number of people joined Lemmy before July. The user based for Lemmy jumped by 1600% if I remember right before July 1st

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 years ago

      There are soooo many GPT comments and threads on Reddit, at least when I left on the first. I imagine it’s going to get worse and worse now.

    • serenai@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      Reddit started with nothing but sock puppet accounts created by the devs, so I could definitely see them doing the same thing to show “activity”.