• dustyData@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They are slowly snowballing but it’s accelerating. Once a certain amount of people leaves or stops interacting altogether, the site bleeds activity and dies. Roughly 2% of people who went on Reddit were responsible for some 90% of the content. 50% of people browsed without an account (you want those because they’re the eyeballs ad are meant for) and the rest were lurkers who occasionally commented. That means if that even half of that 2% of content creators leave, there’s no more content for the rest of the users to see or interact with. Once they leave, all lurkers leave. None of the lurkers are going to take up posting to Reddit, modding or create an account. They will just close the tab and move on to something else. That’s the snowball that’s coming.

    (Numbers are roughly remembered from an old analysis of Reddit traffic, but they’re consistent with almost all social media)

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      1 year ago

      Responding solely to move from Reddit lurker to a Lemmy contributor… this is literally the secret right here… join the revolution, hit the effing reply button, y’all…

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      I did not know it was so low. That’s crazy. It makes sense though. I don’t know anyone who posts in real life. All the people I know who use Reddit are just lurkers.

      • PickTheStick@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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        Just think in terms of the not ‘in your face’ subs. Memes/pics and such were easy to make a post and it either goes up or goes down, but most other subs would need a little more thought/time for a post to be made.

        I was a member of a 2-4 million subreddit, and I think there were only about 20-40 posts a day. Some repetitive posts were removed by the mod bot that you would occasionally see, so maybe a few more than those 20-40, but even the most prolifically engaged-with comment sections would max out around 400 comments.