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Reddit Activity Plummeted After The Protests (www.garbageday.email)
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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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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 126 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Content creators left.

You lose those, you're fucked. A full fckin 80-90% of any given user base are consumers / commenters and they follow content. Creators are a keystone species.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 41 points 1 year ago

Yeah. Reddit seemed to view users like every other social media app without realizing that a lot of the successful apps compensate those who add value to the app.

The official app seems ok for consuming content, but it was dogshit for meaningful interaction.

[–] loobkoob@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Saintpaul@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Well I contribute to the 90% of lurkers. I upvote posts and comments. It ain’t much but it’s honest work.