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.

  • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • tburkhol@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      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.