Bots ain't users, spez, you greedy little pigboy.

I seriously doubt there are even half that many users these days. Go look at the posts and comments on the site now. They're all pointless drivel, and obvious bot posts designed to get other bots and rubes to comment. Stuff like "What is your favorite color and why" makes it to the front page with a hundred thousand upvotes. I mean come on! How could that be actual people?

Well looks like the great Reddit exodus wasn’t so great after all and Reddit more than made up for it. Financially at least, things are looking up for them. I kinda really wish it weren’t so… but at least some of us got to know Lemmy as a consequence.

On the whole it’s gone way downhill since the API fiasco in my opinion. The only thing worth a damn on Reddit nowadays is that some specific communities are better than elsewhere (sports, mental health, niche hobbies) but only because discussion boards (php) have mostly died and Facebook somehow manages to even MORE toxic as far as racism, sexism, etc.

It’s depressing. At one time Reddit on the whole as an entity (not the company, the community) was very vibrant and amazing.

Cool, I like it here more.

Well that's too bad

Traffic in big subreddits dropped up to 30% whenever there was some news that another huge botfarm was busted.

Edit:

Or when Russia is busy starting a war. Completely natural pattern there. The screenshot is from 2022

From what I've heard, it also got a whole lot worse in terms of user experience, so I don't really care.

Of course they are having more users not just necessarily human users. Hope the advertisers get good value for what they spend /sarcasm

Well and behind is is stealing other peoples’ work (posts and comments, moderation and administration) and selling them as yours. The oldest capitalist criminal trick in the book: privatization AKA primitive accumulation AKA enclosure of the commons.

"Auster is the king of Mars!"

Source: myself