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sndrtj@feddit.nl 10 months agoWow, this stats website is interesting. I checked a number of subs I used to frequent: r/thenetherlands, r/idiotsincars and r/Europe . All of them see meteoric rice in subscribers, but number of posts goes down significantly since 2020-2021 (r/idiotisincars is the outlier here, you can clearly see the pandemic, but once it resumes the trend is downward again).
Buffalox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I just checked a couple old subs I used to visit. And the stats are very dramatic in the drop of actual content. So i tried to actually go to reddit to check. Something I haven’t done since opening my Lemmy account 7 moths ago. Somewhat surprisingly to me the stats actually seemed to reflect reality. One of the subs hadn’t had any activity for 5 months!! And it used to be reasonably active for a niche sub, with new content every day.
I also tried to look at the most popular non controversial sub I could think of. Which is r/funny by subscribers, and indeed it’s ranked #1 since 2019, and that too had a dramatic drop in activity. subredditstats.com/r/funny
From these stats, it really seems like reddit is dying, it’s going about as bad as some of the worst plausible predictions 7 months ago!
wewbull@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Take those stats with a huge pinch of salt
You’re trying to measure the effect of something that affected your measurement system.
sndrtj@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Even if you ignore the latter half of 2023 there is a huge and consistent decline in number of posts per day. Image
Buffalox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Thanks, I wasn’t sure where the data came from, but I tried to check up on a few subs, and they were definitely not doing well.