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During the Reddit Blackout i made a graph showing the posts and comments/day (Link).

Some days ago i was asked to make an Update so here it is.

Source Data is from here and contains the same Data as some may know from here. Only difference is that the post and comment count is summed over the day.

EDIT:

The Original Post Data contained inconsistent Data points on each day (see here).

This is the corrected Chart, which uses the difference in Post IDs between the days to calculate the daily number (adjusted to s between the api calls):

I also adjusted the values to 10^6 and adjusted the y-axis ranges, I hope this makes it easier on the eyes.

For people complaining on the mixed chart: Double column looks bad with 2Y-Axis, and double lines looks too empty. 2Y-Axis are necessary cause of the difference in scaling of the posts and comments data, only other option would be an axis break.

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[–] SnowGlobal 70 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Wow, I’m surprised that there wasn’t a bigger dip during the blackout. This shows how mainstream Reddit has become, and there’s a lot of momentum for people to stay there. But we don’t need to get hundreds of millions over to Fedi, just enough to have quality discussions. I’m more interested in seeing the continuation of the growth curves for Lemmy and others!

[–] danc4498 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm curious to see what happens when the 3rd party apps shut down. Most people I know that use them are just waiting on them to shut down before they change their habits.

Also, it's not going to change overnight. I suspect the quality of Lemmy/Kbin will keep rising while the quality of Reddit keeps declining. This will gradually shift where people go for their link aggregations.

[–] pleasemakesense 2 points 1 year ago

Yup, still been browsing reddit but when rif is off I'll be off too

[–] tburkhol 1 points 1 year ago

When people rage-quit Twitter, it was like 2M - they absolutely flooded Mastodon, but it's not really significant to Twitter. Reddit also lost 1-2M of a similar user base: absolutely flooded Lemmy & kbin; minimal effect on Reddit.

API access seems like it will be a much bigger deal - not only the people that use 3rd party apps, but the propaganda & spam bots as well.

[–] netwren 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah I don't need Lemmy to go mainstream it's already plenty for me the way it is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It’s a good though. Reddit doesn’t need to fail for Lemmy to succeed.

[–] JanoRis 6 points 1 year ago

I just updated the post since it was missing data from 8-9 June. With this the dip seems a bit lower, but we can't know for sure since there is no more historic data reaching further back to my knowledge

[–] SeaJaye 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Though, I do kinda like the way it is rn. I mean, I hope for more communities & content someday. But, the vibe here is so calm & courteous atm. Like the best & kindest ppl are here now.

Idk.. I like all you guys, ig. Lol. It's just nice rn 😌

[–] SnowGlobal 4 points 1 year ago

Agreed! Everyone is chill here, it’s not just a bunch of karma whores, bots, and assholes dominating everything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's so chill. The askKbin threads are full of such honest answers at the moment, not something trying to always be a joke or make a pun.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Exactly, I miss some of the smaller communities here but I don't miss having subreddits with hundreds of thousands of people. Besides, reddit is only going to get worse, if the fediverse continues to get better eventually people will move over. It's a marathon, not a sprint.

[–] twistedtxb 3 points 1 year ago

A vast majority of my posts on Reddit about their decision to remove 3rdPA was met with a "who cares?!"-type of response.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Me too, barely any of my subscribed subs stayed open during those first few days, effectively making reddit unusable to me, and I refused to /all or /frontpage so I could have expected a much shaper drop