I think we can be reasonably accurate on how many people are using Lemmy/Kbin, but not on how many people are not using Reddit. Even how many people are actually using Reddit is less accurate as the data is locked away and estimated from other metrics.
If Reddit is going to IPO then accurate usage stats is the last thing it once, like any company it'll go for the most flattering numbers it can generate and push thatball the way.
I did.
I mostly have. However I do not spend anywhere near as much time on Lemmy as I did on reddit. When all the third party stuff started going down I really started to assess how I used the Internet and had to change things. I was using Sync for Reddit on Average 2.5 hours a day which is just insane. Over the course of a decade it was like a year of real time and was really eye opening how much time I was wasting.
Now I set an app timer for Sync for Lemmy for 1 hour a day I rarely hit it.
I do check reddit, but I do not have an app installed, it's mostly to check something specific rather than endlessly scroll.
I pop over to reddit maybe 1-2 times a day for a few subs. My daily driver is lemmy though.
I Reddit exclusively on my desktop now, not on mobile where I did most of my browsing. I also pared back my usage to fewer communities.
I use Discuit primarily now, checking Lemmy (Beehaw mostly) very occasionally.
Me, I don't use Reddit just because I purely used Joey and never downloaded the official app.
Dropped fully, not yet. But I am smoothly porting over more and more of my usage to Lemmy.
Other than occasional query leading to it at work - i haven't been there at all.
It was very easy for me, though. This is the same environment as the one Inhad found on Google+ when that launched - full of technical geeks. I like that so I stayed.
I left and never looked back ever since.
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I lurk but Reddit is completely dead to me. I haven't used it more than once or twice since the API change
I mostly stopped using it when RIF announced they'd drop support. Deleted my account and everything, although I do still pop into subs that haven't migrated over.
I left during the blackouts.
I didn't. However, I read Lemmy until I run out of interesting posts, then switch to reddit until the ads make me angry. Then I do something productive.
I still browse Reddit about as much as Lemmy, because many communities haven't taken off here yet.
Me, Sync for Lemmy. Sync was reddit for me. Now ita Lemmy for me.
I still look at Reddit daily. There's insufficient niche content here for it to be a reddit replacement unless you're only into memes, linux, or radical left politics. I'll be happy to make the switch complete when there are communities active enough to replace the ones on reddit.
I deleted my Reddit account (24k karma, I think, about 10 years old?) and went with Lemmy. It's fine, though I miss a couple gaming subs.
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