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’m no help here, just commenting so I can, also, find out. From: a new Lemmy devotee.
Try similarweb.com
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.
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.
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/
I have no official measurements but when I stop in occasionally, I notice it’s much more responsive than it used to be :)
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.
There’s a sub I’m in that has half the comments in the daily Open Thread compared to last year.
