You may find more discussion over in [email protected], for what it’s worth.
I’d say it’s actual human user base is on the decline
yup its what I was thinking as well. Reddit might deliberately run ai bots to fake traffic.
Their stock just dumped on an earnings beat, so something might be scaring wall street
From Discord, so not necessarily a trustworthy source, but
We tend to underestimate how large reddit is and also tend to overestimate how much the quality of the communities we participate in affect the average reddit user.
https://backlinko.com/reddit-users
It grew pretty heavily in 2024, there are other places that collect stats too, but in most ways that you can easily measure, it’s moving in that direction. 2023 did have a small blip in comments posted per year, but it got back on track fairly quick.
Yeah I saw that chart, but this data comes from reddit itself, which tells me to be sceptic about it. They are public company now and they have to look good to investors.
