It seems that activity in Reddit was considerably slower around the 1st of July, by roughly 1.5k comments per minute. (For reference: the platform usually has between 8k and 3k comments per minute.)

I wonder if there’s some way to measure their quality too, as I predict that it dropped harder than the amount.

  • Lvxferre@lemmy.mlOPM
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    I am not sure, this is just my conjecture, but I think that what matters the most isn’t being tracked - a relatively small drop on amount of content should be side-to-side with a higher drop of overall quality and diversity. So Reddit will survive but bleed, I believe.

    (I’m also glad that this made Lemmy so much more active. Before the recent events, this place was really slow.)

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      The quality of discussion on Reddit will also suffer. They may actually gain new users from all the media attention they’ve been getting, but I can already tell that some of the subreddits I frequented have seen some of the best members leave and more people more obsessed with fitting in / upvotes and trolls shitposting. It doesn’t take much for a niche sub with, say, 5k users of which 200 are really engaged with the sub, to change for worse once those people start coming in.