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flan [they/them]
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Cake day: August 16th, 2022
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Yeah I don’t really know. Something else that could have happened is that Subreddit Stats just stopped reporting the counts correctly because they rely on the API.
Looking at the subreddit stats data it honestly looks more like automation died when the APIs were killed. You can see just a clean drop of 75% on July 11th. I don’t think that was all of the content creators suddenly dropping it on the same day. There were so many reposts and botnets that were reposting comments from imgur and old reddit posts and whatever on the big subs that I totally believe the organic traffic on reddit is sub 50%.
That being said I believe that the big hole that automated content filled (resurfacing vast amounts of the most engaging content) will really hurt engagement of humans and the humans will lose interest over time.
before there was reddit there were message boards and these message boards tended to be pretty small and niche. They would have low thousands of users, if that. I don’t think having low user counts is something to be afraid of - especially for sites run and paid for by volunteers.