Do we at this point have any substantial data on just how many users Reddit actually lost due to this?

Any resources would be greatly appreciated.

As a sidenote, I’ll add that they certainly lost my account the second I couldn’t use RiF anymore.

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I think the critical question is not so much how many users it lost, but how many contributing users? Given the majority of Reddit users are lurkers, you could easily lose half the content by losing only the top 5% of contributing users…

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And those 5% are probably most affected by the loss of third party apps and such.

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Very good point and this place seems like it’s getting a lot of the content contributors…

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I can still use Rif, just mot logged in. Still works as my nsfw source. I just use both reddit and lemmy. Lol

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I think it’s a good chunk but not enough to outright kill the site.

The shitshow that was Spez’s AMA certainly drove away a few users, but I think many more were hoping that they’d dial back the API changes at the eleventh hour to allow third-party apps to at least coexist.

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AMA means “ask me anything”

Not “ask only what I want to be asked”.

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What AMA? It was nothing more than 3-4 pre written comments that didn’t answer anything.

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I quit reddit on my phone, and I’m never looking back. I’m still browsing Reddit with RES on my PCs though. So a drastic reduction in use.

Reddit feels like different now compared to a week ago. Browsing a new fresh site opened my eyes to how shit r/all are. Even with blocked subreddits a new hate fueled subreddit emerges every week.

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Sadly we won’t know the amount of users Reddit lost with Reddit being willing to publicly admit how much they fucked up. Through info on user increase on Lemmy we’ll get an idea but it doesn’t mean those new users have completely stopped using Reddit.

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