Reddit Activity Plummeted After The Protests

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Most major subreddits show a decrease of between 50 and 90 percent in average daily posts and comments, when compared to a year ago. This suggests the problem is way fewer users, not the same number of users browsing less. The huge and universal dropoff also suggests that people left, either because of the changes or the protests, and they aren’t coming back.

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I migrated entirely to Lemmy and I don't regret it. I do miss the amount of content on Reddit, but at least I know I'm not supporting them anymore.
- I'll be honest I have spent the last couple months laughing my ass off at /c/risa since I jumped ship.
  Yes lemmy is rough as a badgers arse but I'll take this over endless streams of how fucked we all are or wall to wall yank politics.
  
  People keep saying lemmy is rough, but so far it's running just as well for me as reddit with the exception of a few hiccups. It actually has more features for navigation
  
  When I say rough ideas qol stuff not stability. I have a couple instance accounts for the hiccups. Things like blocking communities I am not interested not being fed wide. Its kinda like plying wakamole.
  
  My biggest issue is that community discovery is difficult. I browse through the Memmy app and joining communities that are new or niche is really hard. Often times links just don’t work, it might be because I’m on a smaller instance, but it’s difficult to find communities targeting my interests because of this.
  
  If your instance doesn't know about a community yet, you need to try loading it twice. First time it'll give an error, second time will work.
  
  How do I search a community that my instance doesn’t know about to try and find it in the first place, I must apologize for my ignorance, but I’ve never found a good explainer on the finer details of federation.
  
  Personally, I use Lemmyverse explorer and check @tcbot_uam@feddit.uk's trending communities.
  
  Maybe I'm just terminally online but on lemmy.world I just go on /all instances and browse by top last hour and I easily get to the end of the stack.
  
  Try browsing by top six hour!
  
  Do that too
  
  Ive been using memmy and do not notice any significant problems, it feels roughly like RIF did before it got shut down. Yeah there’s some small things that need to be fixed but it’s scratching the exact same itch.
  
  What app are you using?
  
  Not OP but for me Memmy for Lemmy does a good job replacing the Reddit experience I had in the past.
  
  I’ve been using Memmy for a while and am thinking of switching to something else. It’s still a bit unpolished and buggy. It’s solid as a lemmy app but I suspect there are better things out there like sync.
  
  Voyager’s new app is great and extremely solid. Avelon and Bean are great, but they might be iOS only - not sure.
  Bean requires a subscription or a pricey lifetime purchase for full features, like Sync for Android, but it’s very smooth and polished and it has community grouping.
  Avelon’s community browser is 🤌.
  Lots of great devs still coming through with new apps for Lemmy.
  
  I experimented with a bunch of Lemmy clients and came to the conclusion that Bean is the best app for me. Thunder comes second, Voyager second, Lifoff third and so on.
  Memmy, Lemmios and Mlem still need so much work that I was surprised to find that some people find any of those apps adequate. Apparently personal preferences and needs play a significant role here.
  
  The only things holding me back from buying Bean are lack of customizable gestures and the inability to jump to comments from my profile. Avelon has both of those, but it lacks community grouping. Bean is just a bit more polished otherwise, and I like Bean’s larger post titles and formatting in general. I love the toe beans icons also. Keeping an eye on it for those additions.
  
  Everyone has slightly different needs and preferences, and I totally understand why you need those things. They aren’t really a deal breaker for me, since I also have Thunder so that I can do certain things more easily. At the moment there’s no single app that can do it all. Instead, you need to use two apps to do everything you want.
  
  Voyager is so much like Apollo, but I use Lemmy to share images since Voyager only shares links for now.
  
  Thunder is my favorite so far. The heavy focus on gestures took some getting used to for me but I'm on board with it now.
  (Also, not OP)
  
  2nd for Thunder, but I turned off swipe and gestures and turned on the buttons in General.
  
  Thunder is fantastic though i bet the team hates hearing from me. I test absolutely everything for screen reader accessibility and have submitted many many bugs. Thunder may very possibly bevthe most screen reader accessible lemmy app out their and that would be because of my reports and the fantastic coders.
  
  ... really? I looked hard (I thought) when I started and didn't find the settings to disable the gestures. Maybe I was drunk. I just updated so I'll take another look.
  EDIT: there's an entire setting category named "gestures". Either I was drunk or blind or both last time I searched for those settings. Thanks
  
  I'm on mobile Firefox browser
  
  To be honest there’s an annoying about of cynical politics here too, I’d debate these people, but I often don’t have the energy.
  Sincerely -a yank
  
  c/Risa is hands down my fav community! And very active.
  Lemmy is kind of rough, but I've started to love it. I definitely think that I get the same content satisfaction I had at reddit -- I think it's more true of niche communities on Lemmy at the moment.
  
  !fuckcars would like a word.
  
  I'd rather they didn't.
  My country is old enough that alot of places aren't built for cars at all
  
  I'm not sure what you've been looking at but the "we're fucked" politics is just as bad if not worse here. Its just WAY further left.
  
  I already said c/risa
- 14 year redditor and I go back and forth (only for 2 subreddits) but majority of reddit, including the news portions are completely dead. RIP r/pbsnews. I vow not to comment or submit any new links for them.
  
  Same. I will say though, my phone usage overall has gone wayyyyy down. So. Thanks, Reddit?
  
  Yeah, I spend half as much time just endlessly scrolling anymore. Phone use is down and the time I spend on my PC feels more productive too.
  
  I do a lot more reading books when I want stimulation now. I still browse lemmy if I’ve only got a few minutes, like waiting for a build to finish in Visual Studio, but I’ll grab my ereader for anything longer than that.
- Ditto. Lemmy could see more content, but the current amount is enough to keep me entertained.
  Frankly the only two situations nowadays when I open Reddit is 1) cross-checking stuff posted in this comm, and 2) copypasting stuff from Reddit to Lemmy to avoid giving it more pageviews.
- I moved the Reddit content I wanted into an RSS feed by putting the subreddit URL followed by /.rss into the feed URL and it works
  
  I never knew this. I tried with https://www.reddit.com/r/watercolour/.rss as a test. I can the the images are in the feed. But, my readers are not showing them. Do you have any suggestions on getting image previews to work?
  
  I'm not real sure what the issue is but I can confirm that's the same URL format that I use. I use Feeder on Android if that helps
  
  that's what I use yes. Do you get images for that URL? If you don't mind a quick check? Then at least I can dig into feeder.
  
  Huh. Yeah I'm not getting them either, and after looking into my other feeds that do have images it looks like those are either video preview images or links to articles, so I guess it doesn't support native reddit image uploads maybe?
  
  thanks for testing, I do appreciate that. Thats a shame, but it is what it is.
- Same, but I justify it to myself by the fact that I spend significantly less time doomscrolling.
- I wish I could but there's not much of a sports community in here yet. Trying to sub and contribute where I can to change that tho.
  
  I'm not much into sports, but I'll be cheering you and your efforts on! Go team go! I try to post occasionally myself things that might spur discussion.
- Same, except I do go back browse occasionally…no voting/commenting tho.
- Lemmy can feel slow at times but the byproduct is that I find myself searching for new communities, not just replacements for my old reddit favorites.

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