They can't run ads on the subs though so they can't use it to monetize. Big reason they got so pissed off at mods changing subs to nsfw

And reddit these days only cares about PR so can also be a time bomb. Only surprised they haven't nuked everything NSFW

I know it's the only reason I ever end up there these days.

I only still go to reddit for that on one account (in incognito). My main account has only recently logged back in for regular browsing (but I try not to comment and I only use old.reddit + res) because Reddit is where a huge amount of the information I'm trying to find online is still housed, game information, niche hobbies, etc... It may be rotting from the inside, but its corpse is still walking and talking, and until the situation gets bad enough people are going to continue using it. I only interact here, but with the nature of how small the communities are, and the fact that I use [All - Top -Past 6 hours] my front page is still basically just the same articles about every fucked up thing going on around me posted onto every instance so I see the same headlines and pictures of Trump almost a dozen times, interspersed with various fetish porn communities.

during the reddit blackout i tried tracking the general activity on reddit and the posts per day dropped by ~10% during that time while the comments per day dropped by ~20%.

When i looked where most posts and comments came from most of it was on porn and hookup communities. Lots of it was also obiously botted.

Always knew that porn on reddit was a big thing but i never realized the scope.

There are niche subs that don’t exist here. The popular, million+ subs are all trashed, like a NYC sized garbage truck and a couple whales exploded, together. That’s just Reddit post going public.

Even so, there are no well populated hobby or career sites here, for example. And sometimes Reddit still has the only spoiler gaming guide on obscure things.

Isn't NSFW stuff a big part of all reddit OC content and the reason many still have an account there?

If old.reddit.com ever stopped working, NSFW content would be my primary reason for downloading the app...lmao