I don’t see Old Reddit lasting long. They’ve cut beloved features before, and they’re still calling New Reddit a “beta feature”. After they’ve pumped enough resources into developing it, I’m sure they’ll move past the “test” phase and just cut Old Reddit out entirely. That’s probably going to be Lemmy’s next big user surge.
Does Reddit suppress mentioning Lemmy? I remember for a while this past June 2023 there were a lot of auto-deletions for mentioning or linking to Lemmy. I was never clear on who was deleting things and where. I guess linking to the r/Lemmy subreddit (or a fediverse sub) could work as long as the subreddit doesn’t get banned.
That small minority being a surprisingly large chunk of their volunteer moderators, which is why old reddit isn’t goin anywhere.
Would not be surprised if they are being dishonest about how many users are on old. I recall over a year or two ago reading a highly upvoted comment about it being less than 5% of all users, it might of been an Admin I don’t remember. New users I’ve shown old.reddit to are always so delighted. I’m sure it’s almost all OGs still on old though.
I modded some subreddits and before they fucked up traffic stats to not differentiate I can tell you that old (and new) was not putting up anywhere near the numbers of mobile. New had a lead over old but not a huge one.
EDIT: From a few years back - https://imgur.com/SJYWbQ5. I’m outing myself if someone does a bit of legwork, but IDGAF because I’m permabanned from reddit anyhow lol. Also, here’s one from 9 months ago, though I don’t remember the subreddit - https://imgur.com/FD0005K, and another from a year ago - https://imgur.com/9SBtazx
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