730
What happened to the 2023 Reddit API protest? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
355 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

Reddit has somewhere north of 100 million MAU. Lemmy has somewhere in the realm of 50k MAU, or 0.05% of Reddit. Even factoring in PieFed, etc., we're talking about a drop in the bucket for Reddit.

A lot of people came to Lemmy, by Lemmy standards, but almost nobody left Reddit, by Reddit standards. The case can be made that our 0.05% are the the best 0.05% of Reddit, but it's still teeny tiny. 99.9% of users just bent over and shouted "Yes Spez!"

Edit: this article includes active user estimates each quarter, and the numbers continually seem to be going up.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
    •
  • [–] 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    That article doesn't attempt to differentiate between human users and bots.

    Also, Reddit has gotten significantly more ban-happy since then, which is almost certainly creating a chilling effect on discussions there.

    It doesn't take a lot of that to cause a shift in conversations.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Active users that post and comment matter much more than the total number though. Lemmy of course is much smaller, but it certainly has attracted a decent portion of reddit's "active" users

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent