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this post was submitted on 02 Jun 2023
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Doubtful, they have the data about how many users are through the API so while I'm sure they don't expect everyone currently using through API to leave (after all they're doing this to get users on their own app) they must be OK with "xx%" leaving.
I think I saw someone post the share of users that were using the "standard" options (site and app) and it was the majority.
But someone made the point that it might be the 5% which are producing 90% of the content leaving. Don't know if this is true, but there are a lot of 10+ year long redditors being vocal about the API issue.
That seems likely. There is research that in online communities there is a 1/10 ratio of people who post anything to lurkers, and a 1/10 ratio of posters to "power users"
Those 1% power users on Reddit are definitely not using the official app.
That could be true, let's hope for it and that it also means Lemmy takes off in the wake of it...
Given how bad botspam is on Reddit, I have to assume they don't understand their active user stats as well as they think they do