Reddit seems oddly quiet these last few days. Its kinda eerie. Posts that would normally generate a ton of comments just have 2 or 3 comments. It feels a bit like a calm before the storm.
Anyone know whats up?
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They banned all the legit users, so now it’s just bots.
It’s busily dying. Activity and engagement has been falling for years, but only recently reached tumbleweed territory.
Bots. I presume they’re gearing up and are about to do something massive soon.
Not my experience at all, but I hang out in niche subreddits only.
I will say that I am noticing a trend where if I sort top posts by year, damn near everything is 10-12 months old. Between that and just a general lack of good info on recent topics, it’s clear a lot of the subject matter experts have moved on. To Discord, maybe.
I feel like they’ve been shuffling chairs on the titanic to cover up their falling engagement. Their default sort is now showing things from 4+ weeks ago, “Hot” posts with 0 upvotes on massive subs, hiding total sub member count with a rolling view count, etc…
Not sure who they’re trying to fool but it’s not hard to tell that activity has dropped. Stale posts, niche subs have dried up, active readers in the single digits, deleted comments, etc… But their stock is higher than ever so that’s nice I guess?
Their indiscriminate AI ban hammer with no real appeal system is probably a large part of it as well. They have likely IP banned a large portion of the real humans that previously used the site.
I used it for over 11 years and was a top contributor or whatever before randomly getting axed for no reason
Are you sure you’re on popular?
