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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I see an awful lot of people here who have quote left reddit, and yet they still go back to Reddit every day to see what's going on, or to grab popular posts so they can repost it here and try to get imaginary points or something. All they're really doing is helping inflate metrics like this.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Alternatively, they give Reddit one users worth of ads to make Lemmy a better alternative. I think many will continue using Reddit but attempt to reduce the usage (especially once 3PA are blocked). That means once you run out of content on Lemmy, you switch to Reddit. So more content on Lemmy means less time on Reddit.

The simple truth is that there are communities on Reddit that I care more about than about the API changes. And for those I will continue using Reddit until an alternative exists. So it is a gradual change for me and everyone that helps moving the good content to Lemmy helps me indirectly.

I guess it comes down to whether you consider highly upvoted content good content, especially when it comes to memes etc.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

This here. I still check Reddit regularly, but I’m mostly just checking in on a handful of communities, not nearly as much engagement as last month, so if daily active users is their metric then I guess I haven’t moved the needle, but if it’s about actual API usage, number of posts viewed, votes given, comments made, etc. it’s probably 5-10% of what it used to be.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm not really surprised, I'd actually assume that sexy John Oliver and the other protests created a lot of additional traffic. People post like crazy and a lot of people want to see that, especially since it got some coverage on news sites. Add to that the big majority of people who do not care (remember that 80% of traffic was still reached) plus some who may have been sympathetic enough to join the two day protest but don't care enough to continue to stay away. It's really not surprising that we're back to normal numbers.

Thankfully this isn't the only impact people currently still make, so this isn't over. The real question now will be how else it might change Reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I look up my acct and see my deleted comments and posts being magically revived. Did screen caps of most of it and it is definitely a real thing. Is that a metric for traffic?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Depending on where you live isn't this a violation of our right to privacy? At least in the EU.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

California I believe also has the right to be digitally forgotten.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

maybe i'll use the web version for some time, not gonna use their app for sure

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I don't think most people understand the protests. I had to explain it to two people who use the platform.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

This doesn't surprise me. Most people don't have the time or desire to keep up with tech news, and they just want to feed their addiction. It'll be interesting to see what happens 1~2 weeks after the new API rules are active, and people realize the app they use no longer works.

I never created a Reddit account, and only visited under duress, so I'm not really affected by this. So I'm just cooking up popcorn & watching the show.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh, man, I'm sure the traffic is up... It took me FOREVER to delete all my comments and posts across 18 accounts. That 5 second lockout on API calls is a total bitch!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My first reaction was one of questioning the statistics.

Then I realized that the way they were generating their stats wouldn’t have counted me for the most part.

Then I realized that I wasn’t really all that unique; most power users wouldn’t have shown up in those stats.

At that point, the stats made more sense.

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