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[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 26 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

90 million of which are bots. If you can only make your company profitable by fraud and scamming advertisers, your company shouldn’t be in business.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 hours ago

That's pretty generous to assume 10% of their users are human.

[–] actually@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I spent ten years on Reddit. I can use that to compare for myself the amount of engagement then and now.

If most of the users are not bots I would be so surprised. I think they lost a huge percentage of traffic and are now knowingly faking live user counts

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 1 points 25 minutes ago

I was there for 10 years myself and I fully agree. I think peak Reddit was during the age of the novelty accounts; it still felt new & fun, like you were a part of something no one knew about, even though everybody knew about it.

[–] dugmeup@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

That is awesome.

The bigger they are the more they will tempted to become billionaires.

Their greed will make them inhospitable to people. Lemmy will be here when (not if) that happens

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Reddit also grew to 97.2 million daily users over the past few months, marking a 47 percent increase from the same time last year.

This is for the quarter that covers July, August and September. Last year, the API fee kicked in on July 1, killing most third-party apps, and the quarter would have also included any lingering drop in users from June's protests. So, it's a big year-over-year increase in daily users but that's compared to what might not have been a very good quarter last year.