• where_am_i@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      you’ve seen nothing. Tomorrow it’s gonna be all over lemmy again “hello I’m a refugee, how is lemmy profitable without ads?”, or “admins should make sure we have this thing X like on reddit”

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        1 year ago

        FWIW I deleted my Reddit accounts on 6/8 and started checking out Lemmy this week after a couple weeks of sorely missing Reddit and trying to make other platforms fill the void.

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        1 year ago

        well, they panic while bad stuff happens…

        but act? most people always only react, never act.

        • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzOP
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          1 year ago

          That’s what I meant, most people aren’t going to look for Lemmy until what they are used to actually stops working.

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              1 year ago

              Actually, the discretisation will probably be like:

              70% just download the official Reddit app and don’t mind

              20% leave the site and don’t look for alternatives

              10% look for alternatives

              And half of them choose Lemmy

              So we might get like 5% of Reddit’s entire 3rd party userbase across all of Lemmy. Which sounds tiny but is actually frighteningly large.

              • Doug [he/him]@midwest.social
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                I think your 70% is high.

                People chose 3rd party apps. Whether that’s because they’ve been there longer than Reddit having their own app (like I was), not liking Reddit’s app, or something else they still opted to use it via something unofficial.

                Reddit’s app is garbage and invasive. I’ve got duck duck go’s privacy thing and tried Reddit’s app a few months back with it. It had more blocked requests than anything else on my phone. On top of that it was the worst experience I had with any app to access Reddit.

                I don’t know how much I think your 70% is high, but I bet it is. On top of that I think some percent that do use it via official app will jump off in the coming weeks.

                All that said I could also see the other numbers adjusting too, so the amount of new users next week could still be in the 5% neighborhood.