• @kava
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    71 year ago

    Reddit traffic dropped by about 3%

    That’s gonna be about the extent of what we’re gonna see. The situation has more or less normalized on reddit and the admins are tying up the largest loose ends - like /r/pics or /r/military

    Posting pictures of Jon Oliver reddit couldn’t care less about. Setting the sub to NSFW is what hurts them, and it seems like subs are finally switching back on threat of mod removals.

    Will reddit continue going to shit? Absolutely. It’s entered that phase of enshittification and crossed its own Rubicon.

    But behemoths take time to die. The redditor userbase has gotten fatigued and until reddit makes their next shitty decision I think things will be more or less back to status quo - minus the users that left.

    • @WhiskyTangoFoxtrot
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      271 year ago

      Reddit traffic dropped by about 3%

      That was in June, before the third-party apps stopped working. Numbers for July aren’t in yet.

    • @foggy
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      81 year ago

      The 3% figure was just month over month from May to June.

      I read that article. It was very misleading. You took the bait.

      • @kava
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        11 year ago

        Are the numbers false? I saw a previous measure on an article that was around 3% as well.

        Obviously we don’t know the traffic chance since July 1st but the announcement to kill API was made in May. Presumably there would have been an impact because of the changes that contributed to the 3%.

        • @foggy
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          101 year ago

          No just misleading.

          First because it’s web traffic, not all traffic. And the big loss for reddit is their 3rd party app users, which are not included in that figure.

          Second, Reddit didn’t take a big hit in the window they discussed. The downard spiral began as a warning shot for two days on June 12th.

          The real damage Reddit dies to themselves began July 1st.

          I’d rather see April vs September numbers. And have it be measuring engagement. How many submissions, comments, etc.

          But even then, reddit is losing 3rd party bot detection, and gaining bots. So it’s a lot harder to measure than the article suggests.

          • @kava
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            31 year ago

            Good points. I’m curious to see how the situation develops going forward. Social media websites are quite chaotic at the moment. Reddit is playing with fire, just like Elon with Twitter

        • @SulaymanF
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          41 year ago

          The apps didn’t shut down until June 30 or July 1.

          Second, 99% of Reddit users don’t post content, and the power users were pretty upset and many left. Reddit May keep chugging along for a bit but content will get stale. It won’t turn into 9gag overnight but over a few weeks you’ll see a change.

        • @5too
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          11 year ago

          I don’t know that they’re false, but they’re misleading. Not only was it traffic for June, but the thing Spez will care about is advertising dollars - and as others have said, the more communities are flagged NSFW, the fewer ad spaces can be sold.