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Most major subreddits show a decrease of between 50 and 90 percent in average daily posts and comments, when compared to a year ago. This suggests the problem is way fewer users, not the same number of users browsing less. The huge and universal dropoff also suggests that people left, either because of the changes or the protests, and they aren’t coming back.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Mine is more like,
Michael Jackson eating popcorn, watching something entertained, exuding happiness
Because even if Lemmy didn't get huge I still want to watch Reddit die.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Hey, at least the attention whoring subs are getting a lot of frontpage time XD

Like the "amiugly" and all its variants, which I didn't even know existed until after the fiasco pushed them to get on the r/all frontpage.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The figure is probably closer to 40% than 90%, subredditstats seems to be affected by the api changes too. However 40% at the low end of the range is still phenomenally bad. And every subreddit is definitely seeing a constantly declining amount of activity now.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It was pretty obvious from looking at /r/all that upvotes and comments are way down. Posts from somewhat obscure subreddits are making it to the front page, something you never saw before. People may be reading, but they're not participating as much as before.

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

Yup. Still, having someone to actually measure it is nice.

And based on the Reddark site, obscure subreddits were likely affected even harder, as plenty of them are still restricted or private (since Reddit doesn't care about those).

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

YouTube is strong because it has an evergreen library. Reddit relies on the present. That makes it much easier to change platform.

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