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As Reddit Crushes Protests, Its User Traffic Returns to Normal (www.pcmag.com)
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[–] 32 points 3 years ago (6 children)

I am not sure I believe that, it might be that bots can be active again now that the subreddits are reopened, but I know that I am not back. And I won't be back, and I think a lot of people are staying away as well. That the traffic is now normal seems a bit sketchy.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I know that I am not back. And I won’t be back, and I think a lot of people are staying away as well. That the traffic is now normal seems a bit sketchy.

    I'm afraid that's just bubble bias. Most people just don't care or haven't found a viable alternative yet. These +43k active users on Lemmy are huge for Lemmy, but not even a scratch for the other site.

    After the initial exodus at the start of this month, you could see more and more comments demanding returning to business as usual.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago*

    If Reddit experience a drop a 5% of its user base I doubt they would immediately notice. And even if they did sites like this (pcmag) would not consider that a major drop and so wouldn't even report it as such.

    But we all know that 5% of the users produce 90% to the content.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    It's interesting to see how the traffic is after 1st of July. I hate to speculate but I wouldn't be surprised when an article will comes out, stating traffic has not changed after 1st of July.

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