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Reddit protest by its community moderators has impacted user engagements, traffic and visits to its ad portal since its beginning on June 12.

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[-] kbity@kbin.social 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

A flood of children at the same time as an exodus of the type of users who actually upload good content to Reddit could definitely set up the conditions for a steady bleed of users away from the site, though. Especially with moderators' ability to actually do their job being impacted by the API changes.

[-] grahamsz@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

Also worth noting that reddit control the metrics that they release for a lot of this.

There's no real measure of good engagement vs shallow engagement, so they can find a way to show that user visits are up even if the worthwhile content is starting its slow slide. Shit, i probably used to visit reddit once a day for 12 hours, but now i visit 5 times a day when i instinctively enter the URL.

[-] abff08f4813c@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

So the metrics that reddit controls are showing that things are going down. How bad must things be that even reddit can't hide it from their metrics now?

If we could truly measure good vs shallow engagement, I wonder how much worse these numbers would be.

[-] vinceman 1 points 2 years ago

Ooohhhh I love data conspiracy. Completely agree btw, spent for sure an hour a day less on reddit.

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