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Reddit Activity Plummeted After The Protests (www.garbageday.email)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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] 168 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (27 children)

I wanted to call bullshit ~~but they’re entirely right.~~* Comments per day took a nosedive. Now if only more hobby communities would lift off, I’d be able to abandon Reddit entirely. I’m up to my tits in Linux and privacy guides but I still know nothing of mushroom picking. Nothing!

Edit: *some users pointed out that subredditstats is no longer capable of accurately tracking comment numbers. I was wrong.

[–] dystop 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And that's exactly why lemmy needs to grow its userbase significantly before it can ever become mainstream.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

grow sounded nice until you said mainstream.

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

The beauty of a federated social network, is that even if it becomes mainstream as a whole, there will always be smaller niche instances for us to get away from the big ones on.

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