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Does anyone know how many people have left Reddit? (lemmy.world)
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I’ve tried looking online but I’m not savvy enough to find a good answer. I haven’t been on Reddit since June 30, and am interested in seeing the number of people who have migrated. I know the Reddit user base is huge, so idk if it has been enough to hurt the site. Fuck spez.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The quality has tanked in the past several years in large part because of how big it is.

What I think happened in the past several years was the rise of the mobile user.

It's somewhat hard to write well on a touchscreen and the 13+ demographic expanding as younger teens had less tech-hesitant parents means that low-effort submissions really took off. They don't write well at all, and they don't care about paragraphs, punctuation, or using any capital letters.

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

Oh yeah, teenagers getting smart phones is a big piece of it. We used to joke about summer Reddit when all the kids were off school and everything got dumb and horny. And then that became the normal.