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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!

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wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Take those stats with a huge pinch of salt

Heads up! This data is likely out of date or inaccurate now that Reddit has decided to kill the open ecosystem that existed around Reddit. I don’t earn any money from this site, and if my calculations are correct it’d cost me a couple thousand dollars per month with their new API pricing

You’re trying to measure the effect of something that affected your measurement system.

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- sndrtj@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Even if you ignore the latter half of 2023 there is a huge and consistent decline in number of posts per day. Image
  
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- Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.
  
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