Hey all, Still occasionally dipping into Reddit but am finding myself gradually transitioning to Lemmy (shoutout to Memmy!). I was wondering if anyone here knows, what has reddit traffic been like these last few months? Is it declining or holding strong? Thanks
I only know about the subs I mod.
A popular one with a couple million subscribers is seeing way less posts and less traffic.
A smaller niche sub that I mod is still quite active with no signs of stopping.
From a user perspective that’s my experience, too
The bigger subs are easily migrated to Lemmy with enough users to produce regular content. The smaller communities here are extremely deserted as the smaller userbase of Lemmy seems to hit those the hardest - also the federated nature making it harder for users to connect groups with similar topics together and select one as the main one
One possible exception to that, at least so far, seems to be r/nfl. It’s a behemoth on Reddit, but it seems like few made the jump to the fediverse, sadly.
Hard to say, from what i know they use a shit load of bots to cover up user loss.
Didnt someone on here say they sold a 10+ year account with a crap ton of karma for like 1400$?
Deeply skeptical. Mine is 15 years old with a few hundred k karma and it isn’t worth shit.
Yeah mine is similar and I looked up its value and it wasn’t worth the effort of selling it.
They did it to r/de, no reason to believe they have stopped. https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/13p889x/reddit_admins_were_just_caught_using_bots_or_fake/
Source, go to reddit and read the comments of a top post of the day in a default sub.
About half the comments are copy paste or literally generated by a chatbot. I know people there behave like NPCs but thats a new low. I think The Verge made a Article about it as well.
I don’t think there’s going to be a good way to know. Semrush is showing a relatively steady decline since January 2023, but I don’t trust third-party tools for that. And I doubt that Reddit would make its first-party analytic data public if it looks bad, so in that case the default move is to either cherrypick or create a metric that appears favorable, a la Elon Musk’s brand new Twitter metric of median picoseconds of verified user screen time per albatross fart or whatever.
From a qualitative standpoint, both the content and general vibe seem markedly worse than a month or two ago. It’s made it easy to stop using it as my default online platform.
But in any case, I don’t think it’s worth it to get too invested in either its success or failure.
I’m no help here, just commenting so I can, also, find out. From: a new Lemmy devotee.
Try similarweb.com
After seeing this post, I just had to go take a look. Now I need a shower.
It’s really depressing over there.
