Hey all, Still occasionally dipping into Reddit but am finding myself gradually transitioning to Lemmy (shoutout to Memmy!). I was wondering if anyone here knows, what has reddit traffic been like these last few months? Is it declining or holding strong? Thanks

  • @[email protected]
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    761 year ago

    I only know about the subs I mod.

    A popular one with a couple million subscribers is seeing way less posts and less traffic.

    A smaller niche sub that I mod is still quite active with no signs of stopping.

    • hh93
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      341 year ago

      From a user perspective that’s my experience, too

      The bigger subs are easily migrated to Lemmy with enough users to produce regular content. The smaller communities here are extremely deserted as the smaller userbase of Lemmy seems to hit those the hardest - also the federated nature making it harder for users to connect groups with similar topics together and select one as the main one

      • comedy
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        81 year ago

        One possible exception to that, at least so far, seems to be r/nfl. It’s a behemoth on Reddit, but it seems like few made the jump to the fediverse, sadly.

          • comedy
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            11 year ago

            Far less than you’d imagine, and it certainly wasn’t modded that way.

        • @Etterra
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          31 year ago

          Figures. Escaping the omnipresent obsession with sports is almost as impossible as escaping the grim specter of politics. Impressive considering how objectively irrelevant it is compared to said politics.

      • @Zstom6IP
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        21 year ago

        im just surprised that i claimed the name c/leftism, now i contorlthe largest leftist space on lemmy.world

    • @Sho
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      181 year ago

      Didnt someone on here say they sold a 10+ year account with a crap ton of karma for like 1400$?

      • Flying Squid
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        181 year ago

        Damn, no one made me that offer and my account is 13 years old.

      • Jimmni
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        71 year ago

        Deeply skeptical. Mine is 15 years old with a few hundred k karma and it isn’t worth shit.

          • hoodatninja
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            21 year ago

            We should all sell our accounts. Not like I’m using it anymore lol

            • @RogueTyre
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              21 year ago

              I wouldn’t tho given theres a chance it will be exploited but then again I didn’t have such account so mine doesn’t have a lot of weight behind

      • hoodatninja
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        61 year ago

        People sell accounts but that’s a lie or a scam. No one offers that much. I got offered $200 for a 12 year old (at the time) account with 150k karma and mod of a small but not tiny sub.

      • @Captain_Patchy
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        41 year ago

        Where does one see such things offered for sale?

      • @djc0
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        31 year ago

        I too would like to contribute to Reddit’s bot overthrow by selling my 12 yr old account to the highest bidder. PM me your $$s.

      • @RogueTyre
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        1 year ago

        There was a shit ton of gpt model bots even when I was using it and they weren’t interested in doing anything about it so safe to say it’s only getting worse

  • crowsby
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    451 year ago

    I don’t think there’s going to be a good way to know. Semrush is showing a relatively steady decline since January 2023, but I don’t trust third-party tools for that. And I doubt that Reddit would make its first-party analytic data public if it looks bad, so in that case the default move is to either cherrypick or create a metric that appears favorable, a la Elon Musk’s brand new Twitter metric of median picoseconds of verified user screen time per albatross fart or whatever.

    From a qualitative standpoint, both the content and general vibe seem markedly worse than a month or two ago. It’s made it easy to stop using it as my default online platform.

    But in any case, I don’t think it’s worth it to get too invested in either its success or failure.

  • @Late2TheParty
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    211 year ago

    I’m no help here, just commenting so I can, also, find out. From: a new Lemmy devotee.

  • @[email protected]
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    121 year ago

    I have no official measurements but when I stop in occasionally, I notice it’s much more responsive than it used to be :)

  • @[email protected]
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    91 year ago

    There’s a sub I’m in that has half the comments in the daily Open Thread compared to last year.

  • @[email protected]
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    81 year ago

    I think it depends a lot on the sub, some of the niche communities with fewer subs just don’t give a crap about reddit politics. And honestly, if you’re just a casual web user with adblock checking in every couple of days, why should you

  • platysalty
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    61 year ago

    /r/anime seems to be holding for now. It’s really difficult when the bulk of “content” a lot of people are interested in are weekly mass discussions and shitposting.

  • @Magicianfox
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    1 year ago

    I sometimes go there to see the drama and share Bluesky invites.

    I noticed some unusual and small subreddits in /r/all a couple of times and some once extremely popular subs like /r/awww and /r/funny seem to lost a lot of engagement.

    So I guess it’s decreasing.

    • @darwin
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      21 year ago

      Can I get a bluesky invite?

      • Panja
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        11 year ago

        Yeah no joke, I’ve been registered for like a year with no invite lol

  • @[email protected]
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    51 year ago

    Decline of quality and quantity of traffic in niche subs over several years is very obvious. As to /r/all I never cared about that. Perhaps advertisers and prospective shareholders do.