• Amorphous [any]
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      4 years ago

      They all believed that Reddit was lying to them about their subscriber counts and that they actually had dozens of millions of active users. The only way you'd get them to accept that the new site is legitimate is by fudging upvote and user counts to make it look like their beliefs were right

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        Also important to note that they were botting the heck out of the original subreddit too and the reason the new site has a domain ban on reddit is because they were botting to advertise it. It's bots all the way down.

        • Amorphous [any]
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          4 years ago

          Probably about as many as were active on the subreddit. They pinned a link to the new site and literally locked the entire sub so people couldn't drag their feet about switching, so the number of people who followed them over is probably at least like 80-90%.

          No idea what that means in raw numbers, though. I never paid attention to that.

    • kristina [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      i think the upvote counts are fudged. if you look at the comment counts id reckon they have 3-4x the users we have. though on our top posts, we get similar levels of engagement despite clearly having less people.

      • Koa_lala [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        They also had a very large timeframe to get people over from the sub. We got randomly snuffed out without warning.