Reddit captures 7% to 16% less audience time during blackout
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https://www.similarweb.com/blog/insights/social-media-news/reddit-blackout/
https://www.similarweb.com/blog/insights/social-media-news/reddit-blackout/
That's just measuring captive audience. What about all the influential users who have left because of how Reddit is treating their userbase. Removing mods who were protesting is a very short term solution. In the long term the overall quality of the site will be diminished.
It has caught cancer. They just haven't totally realized it yet.
It's just what brain drains are called when they happen on the internet. Term coined by /b/ if I'm not mistaken. Creative types start leaving for whatever reason, quality dips, and a feedback loop begins. Quality steadily drops until you're left with a massive ratio of garbage spam to quality stuff worth looking at.
Now if we can just get those creative types that are wanting to leave to come here instead, then we'll have the good content. Because it definitely follows along after the people that make it.
the end of reddit has arrived. might take a few months. but with every controversy, like leaves shaken from a dying tree, users will depart in droves to kbin or lemmy or whatever, and seed a new beginning.
The end of Reddit as a place where anyone interesting hangs out. Reddit will continue on as the Facebook of 2023.
Those numbers seem off IMO. I was over here already, but I went over there during the blackout and there simple wasn't anything to read. The only subs that were up were the ones that I really didn't read frequently anyway. During the blackout, actual human audience HAD to be far far lower.
I'd like to think so too, but that is ignoring all of those people who have admitted to instinctively opening Reddit because it's their habit. There were probably a lot of people who, whether meaning to or not, kept returning to Reddit despite already finding out there wasn't anything they wanted to read during the blackout.
This is how I feel. I made my account in 2009. Couple hundred thousand karma. You can't really alienate the real people who give their time to create shit for free and expect your product to last. They will reap what they sowed.
Well, duh. That just means that 93-84% of Redditors are bots. Bots didn't know there was a shutdown, so those bots kept slamming reddit. So with that data I now can assume Reddit was only 7-16% human.
Unfortunately, such detection methods are often completely unreliable. It might be able to detect obvious cases, but it's no good at detecting the difference between smarter bots and people.
There's a guy called upper echelon on YouTube that made a video showing how much social media is actually bots and its terrifying! Something like more than 50% aren't human posts.
Since I replaced my Sync icon on my screen with Jerboa, I went on Reddit 1 or 2 times only in like 3 days
I have had to check it twice ever since the beginning of this fiasco. Both times for information on the Ukraine war, seeing as despite it being designated for shitposts, NCD is consistently faster than even the actual news outlets in reporting new developments on the war
That's really nothing. I think reddit will gladly trade 10% for more power over the platform. Those people will probably all go back in a few weeks anyway
Maybe, but another way of looking at it is that this already unprofitable company just lost (potentially) 5-10% of their marketable advertising attention. That makes their job of becoming profitable harder, and anything they do to compensate may well make their situation worse. (It could, obviously, also have no effect given how large Reddit already is)