The general population doesn't care about freedom or censorship, they just want entertainment. Also a significant part of those "users" are bots.
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They recently started requiring logins, especially for old.reddit
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Reddit user is growing because reddit user is eating
Doesn't say anything about bots, so I'd bet that's a good part of it.
They were running bots in all sorts of places when I left like 3-4 years ago, and it's only gotten worse. Plus, what easier way to drive up EnGaGeMenT with all of your UsErS than to constantly add more and more fake users to keep the handful of morons who stay around entertained.
Could this post be titled a bit better?
If not bot accounts, then probably old users making new accounts due to being auto-permabanned and not being able to get anywhere with the shitty AI support to restore it, and they aren't subtracting banned accounts from the total user count.
Bo bo bots and sockpuppets
I can only compare to Lemmy so:
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There is way more content
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The people are way nicer
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There is way more topics covered
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There is way less activism
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You get a broader spectrum of opinions, not just Left wing Memes/Linux/Activism/American Politics
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Did I mention people are nicer? My gosh it's so much better
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