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How many people actually dropped Reddit for Lemmy?

It is possible to estimate?

Squabbles, another recent reddit alternative, seems to be taking the doomed "free speech" path (i.imgur.com)

Reddit Tries to Get Users to Pay by Making App Icon Ugly (9to5mac.com)

Question to the ones that fully left Reddit

How has it been for you? Do you get FOMO feeling sometimes?...

"Teddit is Shutting Down. Lemmy is the New Reddit" (tedd.it)

Reddit sent me invitations to their IPO to my "deleted" accounts! That's a GDPR violation! (lemmy.world)

Any pointers on how to report them?...

... (lemmy.ml)

Reddit brings back r/place - tomorrow, July 20 (www.reddit.com)

Totally not suspicious timing at all....

Did anyone try to return to reddit and notice it just didn't do it for you anymore?

So I’ve switched to lemmy since the reddit meltdown started, experienced quite some withdrawal symptoms, occasionally turned back to reddit, more often logged out than logged in. Now I am merely using Lemmy occasionally and by far not as often as I used reddit before. No more doom scrolling....

This is what the official Reddit app looks like, by the way (lemmy.world)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1032247

Reddit launches moderator rewards program amid sitewide discontent (techcrunch.com)

The Mod Helper Program is a tiered system that awards helpful moderators with trophies and flairs. Reddit users accrue karma by receiving upvotes and awards, and lose karma if they receive downvotes. The program rewards moderators who receive upvotes on comments in r/ModSupport....

Now that the dust has settled, what went wrong with saving 3rd party apps? (i.ibb.co)

Reddit admits more moderator protests could hurt its business (arstechnica.com)

Just deleted my reddit account, along with all my posts and comments. (lemmy.ml)

Gotta be honest, watching the titles of the posts getting deleted made me a bit nostalgic, because it was an almost 5yo account....

Apparently spreading news about an homophobic attack is considered islamophobic (lemmy.world)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/5419055...

Reddit claiming they weren’t recovering deleted posts (lemmy.ml)

I’m not sure if it’s a coincidence, but I raised a case with the ICO in the UK, and today they got back to me asking for all my communication with Reddit. Also today - after a month of silence - Reddit also emailed me with this...

Wait. Why is Reddit losing so much money? (web.archive.org)

Reddit kind of anticipates this critique in its investor docs, and argues that it didn’t really start operating as a serious business until 2018 when it finally started “meaningful monetization efforts” — that is, trying to make money for real....

Here's How Reddit F**ks Advertisers

There’s been a few people who commented this in the past, but as an advertiser on Reddit, I want to share the numbers I see....

Libreddit and Teddit are practically dead

It appears API rate limiting has effectively killed these alternatives. You essentially get nothing but “Too many requests” 429 errors....

Reddit seem to have switched to the newer, even shittier UI by default.

Reddit demands moderators remove NSFW labels, or else (www.theverge.com)

Does anyone know how many people have left Reddit?

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.

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