Not sure but add 1 to the count.

There are dozens of us. DOZENS!

Since Reddit is fun was killed I refuse to go back. You don’t kill a damn near perfect UI and get to keep my internet traffic.

My wife and I haven’t been back on since Apollo shutdown. I was/am so pissed about that shit. Fucking assholes.

I haven’t been back to Reddit since the first day of protests.

Not gonna lie though, I miss it. The niche stuff I went to Reddit for in the first place came here during the drama, but despite an initial push to get some replacement communities going here, they’ve gone almost completely inactive now.

According to Google trends, the people who left are an insignificantly small number, Reddit has still grown in search popularity over the last year. However, if you’ve browsed Reddit since the shutdown, you know that this isn’t the whole story, engagement and quality are both down.

Dropped Reddit and never went back.

Edit: Gotta take the flow and promote !bassment@feddit.de while this post is hot. A community for Bass-Guitar players I’ve been building since the Reddit blackout. Come join us!

Count me in. I do really miss Reddit though and Lemmy is nowhere near as interesting as Reddit. But no one said protesting is easy.

Sure it is possible to estimate, but the chance the estimate is any better than a guess is pretty much zero.

The only definite number I have is one.

I did. To all the people on Reddit who confidently said “you’ll be back in a few days” turns out you were very wrong lmao

I did. Said I’d be leaving when they did the API thing and stuck with it. Missed reddit for a week and then moved on. Sync for Lemmy is fine. Lemmy is quieter but there’s also less bullshit.

I had been using Relay for Reddit for years, and they didn’t shut down like other third party apps, so I made a Lemmy account as a backup plan and then continued using both Lemmy and Reddit for a while.

Then the creator of Relay announced that they couldn’t afford to continue service as it was and would be migrating toward a monthly subscription-based service to stay alive. That day, I moved to Lemmy and never went back. As much as I’d love to pay someone else just to stick it to Reddit’s CEO, I felt that getting financially invested in a failing website just wasn’t worth it in the long run. Besides, Sync for Lemmy had just been released and it was a familiar experience. I had used Sync for Reddit before I discovered Relay for Reddit.

Lemmy (and the fediverse as a whole) is much better than Reddit anyway. There are enough people here to have fresh content every day and I’m still discovering interesting niche subs (magazines? I’m still not sure what they call the categories here). There’s also not too many people here, so when I find an interesting topic to comment on (like this one), it’s not already 5,000+ comments deep. Nothing more demoralizing than commenting on a popular topic and getting absolutely no reaction from the community. No comments, no upvotes or downvotes. Makes me feel like I wasted my time trying to add my two cents to a conversation, and I tend to delete those comments later.

And if I run out of things to browse on Lemmy… oh well. It keeps me from being stuck on my phone all day. A smaller community means the feed isn’t endless, so it keeps me from doom-scrolling all day and night. I much prefer it here, and I’m officially done with Reddit.

I stopped using Reddit on my phone, which was most of my Reddit time, but I still use it on my PC.

On mobile I exclusively browse Lemmy.

I would totally migrate completely to Lemmy, but the general audience here is a bit too… radicalised for me. Sometimes I just want to relax, read some interesting link and interact in the comments.

Once RIF was out I haven’t looked back.

Me. The way the API thing was handled just pissed me off too much to log in or contribute there anymore. I do occasionally load the “old.” version of the site up and read some of the specialized communities. I’d been there since the mass migration from Digg.

Lemmy is too slow with new content (my Lemmy frontpage has 2-3+ day old posts) and there are fewer interesting comments to engage.

I do think reddit’s frontpage is noticeably worse off now, but I wish there was some metric to see how that looks statistically.

Hopefully Lemmy continues to grow.