• MentalEdgeOP
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    1 year ago

    Do you think most people act before the bad stuff happens? Or after?

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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.

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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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            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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              1 year ago

              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.