As Reddit Crushes Protests, Its User Traffic Returns to Normal (www.pcmag.com)

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[-] foolonthehill@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I went on Reddit yesterday for the first time since the strike, whilst trying to debug a code issue. Almost every post from years old questions had the replies deleted by the users. I think the real damage will be the deletion of content and the change in tone from redditors. Most useful discourse will be gone and it will turn into a place only for arguing, memes and shit posting. Advertisers aren't going to want to pay to advertise on low quality content like that.

[-] ilickfrogs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I truly feel most of the 3rd party app users were the more level headed folks in the userbse. For the most part we were users there since before reddit had an app when good discourse took place. We're taking that discourse with us and I anticipate further deterioration of reddit. More akin to Facebook style toxicity and echo chambering. I'm sad to see it because overall that's a net loss for humanity/the internet. But I like it here.

[-] peepee_longstonking@lemmy.whynotdrs.org 1 points 1 year ago

The change will take some time.

[-] Atxu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I continued to look reddit for reasons, but honestly the feed is deteriorating fast, maybe traffic is back, people posting content, not so much, engagement? Even less, it's like looking to a old mediocre Google News feed.

[-] The_Vampire@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I at least personally used to be a bit of a power user and have just stopped posting/upvoting/downvoting altogether, and I'm not even a mod.

Just because people show up does not mean people are engaged.

[-] xaxl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Engagement is up because an algorithm optimized it.

The algorithm does not care if that engagement is negative or toxic.

[-] whome@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Fine with me, found a good substitution here after 11 years of reddit

[-] alpacapone@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

It's going to dip again when third party apps are shut off. Personally I'm still browsing Reddit to check in on the drama on /r/ModCoord

[-] iamsgod@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

dunno, but third party usage were never that high IIRC. that's why them targeting third party apps is a weird decision

[-] Naryn@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Apollo has 25m downloads, I can't imagine that the various Android 3rd party apps are any lower than that in total, if not individually.

Officially they make up a small amount of traffic, but amongst power users who both create and comment significantly is much more commonly done through 3rd party apps.

[-] kwot@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

...normal or "hey, it's all good because we said so"?

[-] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah where is this data coming from?

[-] unabatedshagie@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

When Apollo stops working, I will only be accessing Reddit via old.reddit.com

I refuse to use that shitshow of an ad riddled official app.

[-] unsophisticated@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

You should access Reddit only via a mirror as you wouldn’t want to contribute there anyway.

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