It could also be that they have had modest growth from normies offsetting the losses from earlier users. This could explain why it appears to be in steep decline for many of the people here but may look almost ok from the outside.
Indeed, like it or not, the people who complained are the power users, a very vocal minority who still use old.reddit. Normal people don't give a shit about any of the controversy.
They lost all their users that provided value for reddit as a platform. Reddit will surely continue to flourish as a way to show ads to children and astroturf Google search results for product reviews. But I've noticed a ginormous drop in posting quality since they neutered their API. Even small subreddits that were fairly active are now filled with spam and engagement farming, moderators aren't interested in cleaning anything up because their app to do so is trash, users don't want to post because the subreddit is shit up with garbage. It's gotten bad.
covercash|1 year ago
thefaux|1 year ago
Or it could just be bots.
TravisHeeter|1 year ago
After the API thing, I stopped using for a few months, converting to Lemmy instead.
Then I got booted from Lemmy for not being communist enough, I started looking at Reddit again maybe once a day.
At first, I was so happy to see a lot of activity on my small subreddits that never had much activity before.
But after a few weeks I realized it's just bots basically rephrasing popular posts from the past. And bots rephrasing responses to those posts.
Where is the next Reddit? I miss it.
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