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Reddit's Active U.S. Users Took a Dip, the last time Reddit will report (www.marketbeat.com)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by to c/watchredditdie@sh.itjust.works
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Article from August of this year (not too cancerous once you get through the first two splash screens).

Reddit shares DROPPED despite increase revenue. Why? Objective signs of enshittification:

  • declining active user base
  • massive increases in revenue.

People are leaving so the ones that remain must be more heavily monetized, which leads to more people leaving--the enshittification death spiral.

Reddit will no longer be reporting logged-in users as a separate metric lol

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[–] 80 points 1 day ago* (17 children)

Reddit disables...

  • APIs that many popular apps use to help users view Reddit and for users that hate the new interface
  • disables .compact and .mobile views which pockets of users like that hate the new interface
  • bans users on VPN
  • forces "old.reddit" to require a login which alienates users that hate the new interface

Reddit: "Why are people leaving?"

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  • [–] 3 points 17 hours ago* (1 child)

    also trying to force users to use the APP, by constantly refreshing the page if you backspace. currently sink it/ yeold reddit extension can bypass the login pages, and make oldreddit usable on mobile for the time being.

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  • [–] [S] 37 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    And most recently: blocks even read access without a login (sporadic).

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    FWIW you can avoid this, and still get old reddit without logging in via a Firefox (and probably other browsers) extension that automatically makes reddit links old.reddit

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    I bet they will go log in only next and really kill their product. The draw of reddit, for me anyway, is that it's anonymous.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Agreed. Don't know why reddit corp doesn't understand this.

    "Everyone that was young, left. The changes kept coming in without asking their users what they wanted. They should have held focus groups or product testing. I think when you focus on the money, you lose sight of where you’re going."

    Seems like apt critcism, eh? Except that quote isn't from an article on Reddit, its about Facebook. What confuses me most about Reddit corp's restrictions over the past couple of years is we already have a walled garden social media that requires login to consume. Its called Facebook, and audiences are leaving that one even faster. Why would Reddit look at that declining user base and say "yes, thats what we want"?

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  • [–] 1 point 13 hours ago

    Login only makes perfect sense - you want data and tracking, and forcing a login as a condition of entry both permits easy tracking, and also lowers the barrier of entry for interacting (since you don't need to create an account, as you already just did).

    It also makes it easier to block bots.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Literally all those changes where strictly because reddit is only valuable for Ai training data.

    It started when google bought access to said data, and we where forced to stop using third party apps.

    Google dropped out of the deal and no one wants reddit. Reddit is full of bots, and pro palastine "hate speech" so in order to be valuable for Ai training data it has to use ai to moderate and kick out anyone who doesn't produce valuable data, or is potentially a bot. They only want verified I'D users who don't bring up issues that show up on googles front page.

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