It doesn't matter how many people or what kind of people moved from Reddit. I was there 14 years (Digg 4.0 exile here). They have a new group of people now. My wife and kids now use Reddit, but it's not the same type of user interaction I experienced there in the past. It's very much a mix of scrolling through TikTok videos and sparse reading of comments on an /r/askreddit thread. It's casual browsing and video content. There are still some holdouts, which I think mostly contribute to what's left of the comment section, but that's it. It sucks, because I miss the discussions there. Lemmy kind of scratches that itch, but the content is slow to come in, and the comments so few. I'm doing my part, and I am much more active here than I ever was on Reddit.

It's a war of attrition. Slow and steady will win this race.

Lemmy, just like Mastodon has seen spikes followed by users leaving. But every spike leaves more users on Lemmy/Mastodon than previously.

Truthfully, in the event another Reddit Exodus, which will happen, we need to try and be more of a content-oriented system during that era. Making more posts and focusing on adding to niches.

Reddit is about Niche communities and Content Saturation. Lemmy isn't really about that, but it can be for moments at a time to pull users in. At some point we'll reach a critical mass of users that leads to easier justification for new users to join.

We just need a group of extremely disorganized and disagreeable people to organize and and agree on this.

oh no

My search results keep wanting me to go to Reddit. I'm trying to avoid it, but it keeps calling.

I'm not scrolling there like I did before the "Spez killed the 3rd party app migration". I miss the level of engagement and ease of finding communities. Lemmy is decent, but the post volume is lacking. If I scroll new now, and again 12 hours later, there's not much new stuff before I see the stuff from last time.

Lemmy will dethrone reddit once you are able to google a question and the Lemmy link is at the top as opposed to reddit

Yeah, reddit admins won. Most people don't care and at this point its hard to see what the admins could do to start a real exodus. Hell, my reddit usage is way down, but I still go there for niche subjects (anime, philosophy) because nowhere else is comparable.

The only thing that keeps me going back to Reddit is extremely niche subreddits having no mass here. Honestly if the Nuzlocke subreddit had more activity, I'd probably never open Reddit

The only time I think about Reddit is when you degens bring it up. :|

I'm totally not on Reddit.

Instead of complaining about why people stay on Reddit, perhaps you should focus more on improving Lemmy communities, so that people don't feel a need to return.

While I do like it here, it is very quiet, even when it comes to popular subjects like football, pro wrestling, anime, etc - the sort of stuff that Reddit still excels at.

A lot of subs never really got a foothold outside of Reddit. I tried to do what I could and I'm still trying my best but I'm only one guy and I'm not good at making content. Barely anyone from the BrandoSando subs came, the incremental games community gave up before it even started, no community that I know has had a successful offshoot in the fediverse.

I deleted my Reddit account but there are some subs I greatly miss. Shame the majority of their members didn't move over to Lemmy due to lack of care.

I'll be honest, I am still browsing Reddit, though in a more limited fashion. I deleted all my submissions and comments and refuse to post or comment, no matter how strong the urge to correct misinformation regarding topics I am interested in is. Communities for those topics are generally non-existent, got created and withered within a month of the 3rd-Party-Exodus, or in the case of /r/leagueoflegends and its local mirrors, are generally carried by the eSport scene and there is generally no decent discussion to be had outside of that. And I don't even know if one of the League communities here even does post-match threads.

Tbf, now that I've jumped over here and gotten comfortable, its nice that lemmee itself isnt abusive, but good god are the communists here fucking retarded. And I say this as someone who liked the ideals of communism. Its like how I liked the Idea of Telsas until I met Tesla owners

Edit: Lmao the most controversial part of this statement is merely one of the words I used. One of the things I appreciate about Lemmy is that it shows both the up and downvotes

Edit 2: Look at me! IM the controversy now!

It's actually pretty funny how many discussions about Reddit, Twitter, and Threads happening in the Fediverse.

I just deleted my Reddit account a few months ago (and my Twitter account years ago) and I don't think I miss anything.

That's how it works in most abusive relationships. The perpetrator behaves terribly and then is forgiven. Like the tide coming in each time the abuse is worse, more damaging or in this case more demeaning, but the cost of exiting the relationship is too high because it means to become alone and people hate loneliness more than being shit upon so they complain and stay and hope that this time it will be better even though if they think about it they know it won't be.

The quality of reddit has seriously gone downhill. It feels like being on Facebook or something, the comments are cringrworthy and just plain odd and the posts aren't great either.

The part of Reddit that I DO miss are the video subs. Like WTF, mildly interesting, why were they filming, etc. From my understanding, let me isn't able to host videos but why not drop links to vids🤷🏿‍♂️

I was mostly on Reddit for hockey game threads. Lemmy sucks for that at the moment, so... I went to discord. Fuck spez

This is me. I still go there for two or three subs that don't have critical mass here (thus no conversation). The upcoming weighted sort algo should help a little, drawing people to smaller community content.

But I also moderate a reasonably large sub there, and have stopped attempting to grow anything there -- just spam removal, manually.

But I don't post new content there. Sometimes I'll reply on a comment chain. Here I post new content and interact a lot more.

I'm using Lemmy Connect as my app (like 98% of it). What's interesting is, when I use Reddit I refuse to use their app, so I'm using old Reddit, in a browser. But I catch myself attempting to swipe on comments using the Lemmy Connect gestures.

So I've definitely flipped to Lemmy first.

As per usual, it's a matter of content.

I can't (and shouldn't have to) carry the entire weight of a fandom on my shoulders. Until there's more activity here on those subjects, I have to at least keep an eye on Reddit.

What I always do when I can however, is I try to do POSEO to raise awareness: by which I mean, I post my opinions or ideas or stories in my own site (or in my Masto main) first, and only crosslink on Reddit. I was thinking of doing the same with reply comments as well, but dunno how much would that promote interaction.

Not sure exactly when it happened, but sometime in the past 3-4 years reddit just became not-reddit. It seemed to draw a more Facebook-esque audience than in prior years. There is still some good content there, but its simply not what it used to be.