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The end of Reddit? Why the blackout is still going – and what happens next (www.techradar.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honest question, (I don't expect you to know) how many of those were some form of bot?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nobody really knows, but I personally don't think there were any more bots on Monday than there was a week earlier. It's a nice story that users dropped with the subs going dark, but I think it might be wishful thinking on our part. To my knowledge there's zero evidence to suggest that they were mostly bots.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The submissions remaining steady while comments dropped off a cliff is eyebrow raising, however given how much the site struggled to handle so many private subs from a technical perspective, I strongly suspect reddit didn't really do much ahead of the blackout. I think the steady submissions compared to the decreased comments tell us more about an average day of reddit how many submissions are bot submitted than it tells us about a change in bot behavior that day.