Do we at this point have any substantial data on just how many users Reddit actually lost due to this?

Any resources would be greatly appreciated.

As a sidenote, I’ll add that they certainly lost my account the second I couldn’t use RiF anymore.

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    Does it matter which 1%?

    It very much does. The old metric was that 1% create, 10% comment, and the rest consume (I don’t think the metric included a number for moderator-types). I suspect most of the emigres have a heavier percentage of moderators, creators, and commenters. And I suspect it also contains a larger percentage of old-time redditors. While there are undoubtedly a bunch of people stepping into place on reddit right now, the loss of the people who left is going to hurt reddit.

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      there’s a distorting effect here too, years ago policy changes on reddit had some contributors stop almost entirely. I spent a large amount of the last few years shit posting if i posted at all.

      We may have a large chunk of the current 1% of content creators and as number of dormant creators re-activating after years. It does explain the pace of some of these communities.

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      I don’t like the distinction between commenting and creation tbh. Comments were most of reddit’s valuable content. 90% of everything else in the past few years has just been rehosting content from tiktok and Instagram