• @[email protected]
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      81 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”

    • MentalEdgeOP
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      1 year ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        51 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.

      • Cegorach
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        21 year ago

        well, they panic while bad stuff happens…

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

        • MentalEdgeOP
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          51 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.

          • Link.wav [he/him]
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            51 year ago

            I’m sure there will be a not insignificant number of users who don’t even realize until sometime in July that their third-party app isn’t working

            As a terminally online person, I sometimes forget that a lot of people simply browse sites like reddit casually or infrequently

            • @[email protected]
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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]
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                21 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.

    • MentalEdgeOP
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      61 year ago

      Well, some of them are literally switching to working with Lemmy, instead of reddit.

      • voxel
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        21 year ago

        that would be nice… but also kbin support.

        • MentalEdgeOP
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          11 year ago

          Artemis will work with Kbin first, it seems.

          Sync for Lemmy has also said Kbin support would come, but later.

      • Frank J. Zamboni
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        21 year ago

        Sync user here. I joined yesterday only because I saw the dev is working on a sync for Lemmy app.

        • MentalEdgeOP
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          It’s been amazing. The platform is coming alive before our eyes. It wasn’t quite hitting critical mass when I joined, but now, if it hasn’t already, it is about to. Sync, Boost, and others, will each bring anothe surge of activity as they launch, I’m sure.

  • thisisbutaname
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    71 year ago

    Here from Boost, seems like there’s a lemmy version on the horizon too