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Scientific Study analyzing impact of Reddit Migration on Lemmy

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  • Many thanks to the author for this, this took a lot of work and their labor is much appreciated. This is one of those great papers where it not only details a situation / problem, but points to things we could do to improve lemmy. I'm sure we'll be referring to this for a long time to help us prioritize which things we focus on.

  • Any highlights from the study?

    It seems mostly like "lemmy is now moderately liked".

    Companies use customer satisfaction as a way to estimate their future potential (like apple was cited as a company with a relatively high customer satisfaction, and indeed it's stock and profits later seemed to surge).

    Would be interesting to see something like that for lemmy (you can replace "customer" with "user" for this discussion it's basically the same thing). comparing 1-10 rating of lemmy vs reddit or other platforms (but sample it well, to avoid review bombing), You can compare reddit google play rating with those of jerboa , but that has it own problems (for example a lot of people don't use a mobile client i believe).

    • I'm still digesting a lot of this, but the main ones for me are:

      Third party apps

      ppl love them and are outraged by reddit shutting them down. So lemmy needs to continue to prioritize requests from app devs, and think of ways we can make our API better

      Communication

      Reddit's scummy treatment of mods and app devs is becoming transparent. In a way that's unavoidable because reddit is a for-profit company that by nature must prioritize profits over its userbase. We as open-source devs have different incentive structures, and the more fully we become funded by donations, the more we're accountable to what users want.

      So we need to keep doing our bi-weekly dev updates, and stay accountable to devs, mods, and users.

  • I'm still on Reddit but it becomes less and less on my phone. Actually I only move to Reddit once my Lemmy supply of instant reward doom scrolling is depleted. On desktop I use Reddit exclusively because of the lack of searchable lemmy content yet. I almost use Google only with "Reddit" as search term by now, I don't see that for Lemmy yet.

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