Reddit's Traffic is Down 3.36% Month-Over-Month, According to SimilarWeb

Reddit@lemmy.world – 1818 points – 12 months ago

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:

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Yeah, even just 3% could be very meaningful because it could be a lot of content creators who hopped ship.

And judging by how much content we have here on Lemmy - yeah, I’m thinking Reddit lost a bunch of valuable users and will only get worse with time.

That's the key point. More than 90% of their users never post, comment or even vote.

Similarly, what remains are increasingly concentrated bots.

Look at r/subredditsimulator... Reddit admins were experimenting with AI content and comment generation, and had been for a while.