cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1094374

SimilarWeb has just released traffic estimates for June. According to these estimates, Reddit’s traffic has seen a 3.36% month-over-month decrease.

For comparison, here’s how traffic has changed for other popular social networking websites:

Source: https://www.similarweb.com/website/reddit.com/#overview

    • OpenStars@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      Plus don’t forget the effect of bots, especially those created specifically to mess with the protests. I saw people going around to subs they had NEVER visited before in their entire existence, and spreading misinformation and generalized disorder. Often they were quite upfront about their purpose even.

      Like, polls should be for those who participate in THAT community, not some rando from somewhere else on the internet entirely? I’m not trying to spread a conspiracy theory, but I will say that if I were part of a Russian troll farm, I would 100% have done that, in order to keep people on Reddit where my disinformation content could more easily reach them. (Thus it’s hard to imagine them NOT doing that… maybe, plus many others doing the same just for the fun of it and enjoying helping spread the chaos.)

      @FizzlePopBerryTwist:
      It might be good to ignore all accounts created since the week prior to the protests and moving forward, since there likely would not have been so many accounts created organically, but it would be expected to be enriched in trolling accounts, even if not bots.

  • Ir0nfire@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Next months numbers will be the real show. Personally I haven’t been on Reddit besides landing on it while googling since bacon reader got shut down. I’m sure theirs a fair bit of others in the same boat.

    • qooqie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Oh absolutely man, everything Reddit was/is lemmy is currently (imo) doing better. I might end up back on Reddit from googling some niche questions, but I’m actually engaging on lemmy whereas on Reddit I lurked since there was no purpose to even try and contribute

    • p1zz4@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      I was user of the official Reddit app. Started using Apollo at the start of June after it was announced to be shutting down. I guess I wanted to see if I had been missing anything.

      Totally fell in love with it and am kicking myself for not switching sooner. And now that it is gone, I can’t ignore all the flaws of the official app. Not to mention the entire vibe is off now.

      I’m still using Reddit, but wayyy less since I had to switch back to the Reddit App. So I found my way to KBin.

      I’m really loving the vibe of the fediverse. It’s a little harder to find communities, and the niche ones aren’t as populated. But it is just so optimistic and free feeling. I want to hang here and see it grow, and I really hope it takes off in a big way.

      Btw I can firmly be described as a casual Reddit user. I mostly lurked, posted a comment every now and then… I feel like my experience is not unique.

      Really interested to see the traffic numbers after the API rollout, cause if my experience isn’t unique (and again, I am a normie) then I think it is going very bad for Reddit right now.

  • JayK117@aussie.zoneEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I do wonder how much traffic has been replaced by bots that mods can’t easily remove any more.

  • iAmTheTot@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    Said this in another post but I feel like everyone’s being quite optimistic about this figure. Compared to other big sites listed, it’s the highest percentage yes… but also those other major sites saw reduction and didn’t experience a major shake-up and protest by its users. Considering that, I actually find the figure pretty unimpressive.

    • 70ms@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      If anything, they’ll blame it on the launch of Threads and not their own bad decisions.

  • MauroPantin@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    Makes no difference one way or the other. Reddit will slowly die over the coming months and years, much like previous social media sites have done. It’s over as soon as they want to IPO. There are good, valid reasons to sometimes go against the immediate,higher-profit choice. And sometimes that reason is not alienating your user base by insulting their shared culture. Because doing something like that will get you higher profits now, but will represent diminishing returns later.

    It’s over for reddit, they just don’t know it yet.

    • HeinousTugboat@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      I think a lot of people are thinking that social media dies when nobody uses it. I think those people also don’t realize that Digg still exists.

      Reddit will slowly slump into the endless morass of meaningless social media that’s largely irrelevant, having lost anything that ever made it actually special.