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Has Reddit’s traffic really quadrupled in 6 months? (www.bandt.com.au)

submitted 7 months ago by DisOne@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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If they were just talking about Reddit, I’d assume something dodgy was going on connected with the IPO. But Quora is supposedly back from the dead too… Am I missing something glaringly obvious here?

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[–] cerulean_blue@lemmy.ml 16 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Where did everyone go? I thought Lemmy was the new hangout but it still seems so small, even popular posts are only getting a handful of comments?

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

Well, the federation kinda spreads users out. Like I can’t login to kbin on my Lemmy apps but I can see kbin posts, but the vast majority of my time is on lemmy. IOW it’s harder to participate across instances so less people.

There are other platforms that are probably suffering some form of the same fate, they got an influx of ex-redditors, but not a high enough volume to really take off and get high participation rates.

I dunno, I prefer Lemmy/fediverse. The churn isn’t there so you can actually interact with people instead of competing with inane reddit quips and top comment retreads.

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 12 points 7 months ago

For me, Lemmy content is better in every way, EXCEPT for local subs / communities. I really miss my well populated, engaged local subs.

[–] hazeebabee@slrpnk.net 12 points 7 months ago

I think its that many people didnt really leave reddit, some migrated to lemmy, some to discord, some to other small sites, and some just quit that style of website.

Lemmy definitely is still pretty small, but i think its growing pretty well (i remember checking it out years ago and it being a super tiny niche site). It takes time for things to set up & for users to get comfortable and grow communities they care about. Organic growth is slow.

[–] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

It feels much more filled out than after the initial exodus. Smaller/niche communities are pretty bare, though.

[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

tiktok? ffffff