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Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout “will pass”
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I wonder if the comments about no significant revenue drop still holds true today. I was quite surprised to see that there doesn't seem to be too big a drop in posts & comments (~1k) aside from the crash yesterday. https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/
I think that's kind of proof-positive for just how much content on Reddit is now controlled and pushed by Reddit itself in some way. If 75-80% of the subs where content gets hosted are not adding content, but there hasn't been a meaningful dip in content, it's because Reddit is the one controlling the content.
That's my thought too. Even before this, I felt like I was reading automated posts and chat bot responses on reddit. It seems like a zombie forum where most of the "people" weren't really real, it was just recycled content, laugh tracks, and being force fed content posted by reddit itself (versus users) scraped from other places.
I edited my comment to expand because probably a lot of people don't realize their being manipulated. You bring up a good point though, because you're right. The reason it feels like there's so many polarizing takes and arguments in comments and bot generated discussion is because there is - think about it, say you're like me/most people and rather than go to the link you just go right to the comments. Well if you see "people" arguing back and forth and posting polar takes, you're more likely to go to the article and form your own opinion.
reading the comments here is a breath of fresh air compared to the endless recycled posts and comments from bots and users who might as well be bots
The whole bot comments accusing bot comments of being bot comments surely was intriguing. And that's with them copy-pasting existing comments - wonder how many "users" are GPT bots lately.
I really want to see what these numbers look like on the 1st after all the 3rd party clients are dead. Presumably that will also kill most of the bots as well. I suspect the numbers don't look worse because a significant chunk of the post and comment traffic is automated which will stop working at the end of the month.
Bots have been turned up to 11 to help curb the stats. It'd make sense if this is to prevent the IPO from being impacted by the blackout.