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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.

  • Potato_in_my_anus@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Well, they did say that about only the 10% of users were the ones who make comments and engage with the communities, and guess what, that 10% did use more likely than not, the third party apps. I've been a redditor for more than 16 years with a lot of karma, I deleted all my accounts but one, the oldest I had. I've been back for a couple of niche communities but I haven't commented nor upvoted anything.

    • Lvxferre@lemmy.mlM
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      1 year ago

      Another factor that they probably didn't consider is that those 10% were, on average, more informed about what was happening and what happened in the past (see spoiler for examples). So for a lot of those people in the 10%, even if they didn't use the 3PAs (I predict that a lot of them were desktop users), it was the straw breaking the camel's back - I bet that some people felt outright disgusted for contributing with the profits of a disgusting company like Reddit Inc.

      List of examples:
      • A Reddit admin defending a paedophile. People being banned left and right for highlighting this.
      • The above showing that Reddit has tools to prevent harassment, but won't use them to protect users.
      • The whole "we'll quarantine TD to shut protesters up, but we still want its posters to feel at home here, so we won't ban the sub until it's inactive".
      • Spoiling the "Reddit silver" joke for profit.
      • Using Ellen Pao as a scapegoat.
      • Lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, it's almost like Reddit Inc. says "Reddit users are those stupid things, of course if you throw any bullshit on their snouts they'll happily swallow it". Every fucking announcement smelled like bullshit, specially coming from that sociopath called Steve Huffman.