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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

95% of 20 MILLION????

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

This is how reddit started.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

If there are already articles proclaiming that user traffic is back to normal, I'd be surprised if this wasn't already the case at Reddit. Lots of subs I've been at have had wonky traffic and subscriptions behavior that looked like bots.

Reddit sells ads. They do this by convincing advertisers that access to their traffic is worth money. They'd be crazy not to cheat their metics, if it's possible to do so.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Monthly Active Users" I think.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Saved me a google search

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

"Mostly Artificial Users" lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

@silverbax what are the odds on that being the same or similar for every other centralised social network? they only care about that magic MAU value and will tamper with it as much as possible to sell ads.

"ad fraud" is just something EVERYONE seems to be doing, and the big players just do it bigger.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Kinda unfair considering that's what reddit did.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Anyone remember what happened to that social network started by the two teenage girls? It was popular for a minute, then straight up vanished.