Reddit

I'm sure it's nothing and everything is fine. Now, who wants to buy some of this Reddit stock? I'll cut you a special deal so you don't miss out! ... Anyone?

Reddit isn't dead. There's plenty of posts and traffic, way more than here. The problem is that that quality has plummeted. Bots posting divisive political shit, bad memes, and toxic commenters. Angry people spurred on by bots and no valuable discussion

Yes, everything that could possibly be posted and discussed has been done. Humanity has officially run it's course, that is the only explanation for a reduction in the amount of content on Reddit.

I like how the user claims 2016-2019 as good years. From what I remember, the 2016 election was when reddit started turning to trash with the political astroturfing and right wing trolls making bad faith arguments. When was the crazy with the totally-not-staged crazy doorbell camera videos?

We did it guys. We've posted everything there is to post and now we can finally rest.

Dead? Maybe not. Dead inside? Definitely.

Who would have thought that driving away the power users that posted and interacted with the content the most would ruin Reddit ? 🙄

Here's a theory....

After the API implosion, so many active and posting users quit that the gap was filled with mainly bots.

Whether intentional or not, this gave the impression that Reddit was still active on paper.... The numbers said there was no significant change after the exedous.

When the Reddit admins figured out that a large portion of the site is now bots, they decided to chase the money before the site tanked completely.

This led to Reddit trying to cash in on the remaining users with more ads than ever, cash in on their advertisers, and cash in on the platforms (until recent) good image. Most people have at least heard of Reddit at this point, so going for an IPO now, when almost everyone knows that it exists, and only regular Reddit users are really aware of the enshittification happening. So they can demand a high price for the IPO, and collect a bunch of money before the enshittification is more well known, and the company tanks.

IDK, but that seems to be the way of things.

Smaller subreddits usually supported by a few power users are dying off. I remember it taking me a couple hours to read through the top posts at end of day. Now you’re lucky to see a week’s worth of genuine top posts.

Posts getting roasted in the comments for being too boomery, capitalist bootlicking or hive-mindish happens less and less.

I did notice Lemmy has s lot more comments and votes recently

Reddit changed their upvote algorithm which is why it looks so much lower than it really is.

They covered this years ago..

It is a mystery.

After last June, I ended up muting more and more and more weird niche subs Reddit kept trying to push in "hot" because all the actually hot Reddits were doing the whole blackout thing.

Then some small subs got rather large quite quickly due to void left by the mass exodus, and that went to the heads of the mods of those small subs.

Reddit after June -23 is hot garbage.

Reddit became openly hostile to the people and content that made it great. It’s not exactly surprising that the good users eventually went elsewhere. You could really tell shit went downhill after they killed the third party apps.

I only use Reddit now for a couple of very niche forums (like /samsungwatchfaces) but I never post there anymore.

In 2021 I wrote a story "The Typo which saved humanity" on Reddit and it exploded to 3000 upvotes in less than a day. A couple of years later I wrote a story "Day of the Fat Man" which got 50 upvotes. Everybody I ask considered the second one the better one.

Then I reposted those stories on Youtube and Facebook and both got around the same upvotes, around 5k+ on each.

Yes, Reddit has become quite dead.

But to be honest, my stories on Lemmy got like 50 upvotes so... meh.

Don't underestimate the power of user experience shaping.

The front page is how most interact with the site, and helped it grow. The front page algorithm is bastardized to hell and back now, and unless you're on old.reddit, you cant sort by Hot by default.

Reddit is strangling itself to death with how fiercely it's trying to corral users in various directions. Every HeGetsUs post they force users to look at shoves good content one rank down.

This has an effect on the site overall.

It's mostly bots anywway

Time to bring the people into Lemmy so the communities seem more alive. Sublemmy?

had a vibrant sub with @ 50,000 participants, new content every day. now it's literally full of spam, no engagement, and the 'mod' appears to have fled after taking Spez's offer to take over.

so that's satisfying :D

Considering im one of the top 35,000 most active users on reddit yet havent used the site since July last year, I cant see why

Maybe because all the power users left lol

got the link? OP's account is (suspiciously?) deleted

Nope, OOP guessed it in one. Everything there is to post has already been posted. Close it down, guys, there's nothing left to post. Internet's done.