In fact, they’ve already failed their quarterly projections from ad revenue which has already negatively affected their IPO evaluation.
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someguy3@lemmy.world 8 months agoIt will definitely affect the ipo. Ipo’s are all based on expected growth. Any turmoil, loss of users, mods, content, etc affects that.
doctorcrimson@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And people are getting wise to traffic numbers being inflated by bots.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
As a moderator of a fairly large sub over there, I strongly suspect this is happening on a mass scale. According to our stats, we’re getting 120k unique views a month (dropped dramtically during the exodus, but has seemingly returned to normal now), but posts rarely get more than 20 upvotes or comments. I know most redditers are lurkers, but even still, that just seems like an oddly high number.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Give it time. Eventually the AI with learn to completely mimic human activity. Just not their actual spending habits.