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SimilarWeb has just released traffic estimates for June. According to these estimates, Reddit's traffic has seen a 3.36% month-over-month decrease.
For comparison, here's how traffic has changed for other popular social networking websites:
Source: https://www.similarweb.com/website/reddit.com/#overview
I think it will go down a lot faster now that they've blocked API calls to NSFW subs.
Actually... that's something I have doubts about. It isn't all NSFW subs, just the porn ones... and how many people actually comment on porn subs, instead of just scrolling and... well, "consuming" it?
My guess is users of porn subs will use the official app and not care about it.
Zero surprise. Most people are living life on autopilot. They will continue to ignore major issues—like politics, climate change, and corporations mistreating people—to our collective long-term detriment. Anecdotally, I have friends who don’t give two fucks about such important things. Instead, they focus almost purely on MMA, reality TV, and stand-up comedy.
I mean, we all have hobbies but damn, pay attention and take a stand on serious issues that affect us all.
That's why I went vegan 4 odd years back. No point posturing about climate change, then not doing the easiest thing to personally combat it.
I admire your tenacity, i haveto ask- do you ever wake up cravingbacon ?real talk
I would really like to be a fly on the wall at their meetings to know if that is in line with their expectations or not.
Note that this only goes up to June. The July numbers are the more interesting ones IMO. Stats I've seen show that post/comment volume is about the same, but they could have bot accounts making up the difference.
I wonder if spez will be dumb enough to try to hide their bot use from investors and get sued after the deal when things get revealed. Or maybe he'll be stuck covering that up for the rest of his life.
Would be interesting to see engagement metrics as well.
Yeah, even just 3% could be very meaningful because it could be a lot of content creators who hopped ship.
And judging by how much content we have here on Lemmy - yeah, I’m thinking Reddit lost a bunch of valuable users and will only get worse with time.
Similarly, what remains are increasingly concentrated bots.
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Not enough to matter. Not even out of step with any other social media site lol. We’re doomed
I thought about this comment, and realized that somehow, I just don't care so much about what happens to Reddit anymore. Instead of worrying about what I left behind, I'm looking forward to what's ahead of us.
I think it's because even before the whole 3d-party-app drama, there already was this undefined feeling that Reddit's best days are behind it. Maybe it's the effect of ad money and monetization, or it's the inevitable trend towards low quality content that comes with mass adoption, probably it's both.
Whatever the cause, in most subreddits, the old Facebook-style rot had already set in. Once-cool subs now being an endless barrage of tired memes, bots farming karma, and people being assholes. The things I joined for years ago, the engaging discussion, random encounters with amazing experts, the cutting-edge internet anarchy, it's all already long gone.
When I opened the app (Baconreader in my case), I only did it out of habit, to then spendy time scrolling through an endless list of things that made me slightly go "heh".
So, maybe most people will stay on Reddit for now, and probably I will have to leave behind certain communities instead of finding direct replacements. But I see that as a good thing. As long as even just 2% of Reddit's users make it here, I'm excited it will grow into something much better than what I left behind.
I just realized that today is the first day in YEARS that I didn’t access Reddit. Sad, but it is what it is, and entirely their fault.
Havent been there since the day of the blackout, not missing anything.
That seems small given the number of Redditors here
To lemmy I'd guess the numbers seem a lot bigger. But by reddits standards yea its a small percentage.
refuse to use the default reddit app so here I am. I miss rif but lemmy is filling the void at least.
A well deserved outcome. Companies need to realize that they are nothing without their customers/users. An undeserved arrogance can only lead to eventual downfall.
It won't lead to their downfall. Let's not be delusional here. The got out of this "protest" without a scratch.
This gets made back by September.
95% of people who use reddit use the official app or website, and don't notice a single thing except the occasional stray John Oliver meme.
Not enough hobby communities left.
This is likely to not even include the exodus from the 1st of July onwards also. That's when my partner and I moved over here. Will be interesting to look again at the start of August, check the true scale of their fuck-up.
That's a disappointingly low number. I was honestly fully expecting closer to 30% drop.
July is the real indicator with API being turned off on June 30th. I don't think the protests themselves had a big enough drop off, but I have to assume a lot of folks have either left or use only desktop currently once that happened.
The API hasn't been "turned off", there is still a free tier (very limited) and a paid tier (very expensive), plus some 3rd party apps have been spared and are still working.