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As Reddit Crushes Protests, Its User Traffic Returns to Normal (www.pcmag.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I am not sure I believe that, it might be that bots can be active again now that the subreddits are reopened, but I know that I am not back. And I won't be back, and I think a lot of people are staying away as well. That the traffic is now normal seems a bit sketchy.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If Reddit experience a drop a 5% of its user base I doubt they would immediately notice. And even if they did sites like this (pcmag) would not consider that a major drop and so wouldn't even report it as such.

But we all know that 5% of the users produce 90% to the content.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I know that I am not back. And I won’t be back, and I think a lot of people are staying away as well. That the traffic is now normal seems a bit sketchy.

I'm afraid that's just bubble bias. Most people just don't care or haven't found a viable alternative yet. These +43k active users on Lemmy are huge for Lemmy, but not even a scratch for the other site.

After the initial exodus at the start of this month, you could see more and more comments demanding returning to business as usual.

[–] Something_Complex 3 points 1 year ago

But have you seen the content on the first page? shit absolutely

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

[I’m afraid that’s just bubble bias.] Huh, hadn't heard of that one before. But yeah 43.000 is not a lot next to 52.000.000. I am still staying here tho

[–] Daftman 10 points 1 year ago

It's interesting to see how the traffic is after 1st of July. I hate to speculate but I wouldn't be surprised when an article will comes out, stating traffic has not changed after 1st of July.

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

NGL, I'm only there for the porn now

[–] bulbousnub 1 points 1 year ago

Just use RedGifs directly

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

Yeah, didn't find any equivalent on lemmy so far...