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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.
Same. Thing is, I would usually get gold like once or twice a month. I would post well sourced, long and often highly upvoted comments. Try to be genuinely helpful or insightful. I used to be a journalist, it was an outlet for me.
Not that they were that great, and redditers upvoting stuff are right, and wasting too much on time is really not something to be proud of, but if ten thousand users like you and me quit reddit, all that’s left is teenagers and ‘comedians’ rehashing the same tired puns.
We weren’t just customers, we also produced a lot of the content that reddit was selling and we did it for free.