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Reddit Activity Plummeted After The Protests (www.garbageday.email)
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Most major subreddits show a decrease of between 50 and 90 percent in average daily posts and comments, when compared to a year ago. This suggests the problem is way fewer users, not the same number of users browsing less. The huge and universal dropoff also suggests that people left, either because of the changes or the protests, and they aren’t coming back.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you think there is something inherent to the reddit-format that promotes toilet scrolling? I think so.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Flick through posts, open posts with one tap, get your dopamine. Reddit is also used more by introverted and nerdy people, as opposed to extroverts that use Instagram who would openly watch celebrity related stuff on feeds. Reddit has more user created while Instagram has more "manufactured" content.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I contribute a lot here (on different accounts) as an extrovert who just also happens to not care about celebrities. I used to be on Instagram because I care about my friends who use it, but the platform got enshittified enough to drive me off. Yes, maybe I won’t know that you went on vacation so I won’t be able to bring that up as a conversation topic, you’ll have to remember that yourself and bring it up in conversation. But that’s not exactly a great loss and neither is having one fewer person viewing your pictures and tapping “like” on it. A big part of my extroversion is that I like discussing things. Kbin and Lemmy are places to do that.

I toilet scroll these because it’s something short and engaging I can do instead of just doing nothing while waiting for the human waste disposal process to finish.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Much more than the old school forums it "replaced"