• @AtheistComic
    link
    English
    812 years ago

    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.

    • @Candelestine
      link
      English
      662 years ago

      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.

      • yesdogishere
        link
        fedilink
        172 years ago

        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.

        • zedtronic
          link
          fedilink
          162 years ago

          The end of Reddit as a place where anyone interesting hangs out. Reddit will continue on as the Facebook of 2023.

    • @linearchaos
      link
      English
      212 years ago

      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.

      • a_mac_and_con
        link
        fedilink
        32 years ago

        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.

    • teft
      link
      English
      32 years ago

      deleted by creator

  • @henry_rowengartner
    link
    English
    312 years ago

    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.

      • @15liam20
        link
        English
        12 years ago

        I thjnm the real tipping point is going to be 4th July

        • @ooterness
          link
          English
          22 years ago

          That’s when the aliens invade and blow up all the landmarks?

          • @nrezcm
            link
            English
            21 year ago

            Keep my aliens name out of your mouf! slap

  • @Magister
    link
    English
    212 years ago

    Since I replaced my Sync icon on my screen with Jerboa, I went on Reddit 1 or 2 times only in like 3 days

  • FanfictionConsort
    link
    fedilink
    82 years ago

    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

  • Tyson712
    link
    fedilink
    42 years ago

    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

    • Tigbitties
      link
      fedilink
      262 years ago

      A big chunk will disappear once they can’t use Apollo and RIF.

    • sensibilidades
      link
      fedilink
      142 years ago

      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)