Reddit's Traffic is Down 3.36% Month-Over-Month, According to SimilarWeb
Reddit's Traffic is Down 3.36% Month-Over-Month, According to SimilarWeb
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SimilarWeb has just released traffic estimates for June. According to these estimates, Reddit's traffic has seen a 3.36% month-over-month decrease.
For comparison, here's how traffic has changed for other popular social networking websites:
- Discord.com: +0.51%
- Twitter.com: -1.65%
- Instagram.com: -1.35%
- Facebook.com: -3.18%
- TikTok.com: +0.77%
- Pinterest.com: -2.27%
- Youtube.com: -2.02%
Source: https://www.similarweb.com/website/reddit.com/#overview
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They’ve been astroturfing with bots to pump those numbers
97 0 ReplyThere are soooo many GPT comments and threads on Reddit, at least when I left on the first. I imagine it’s going to get worse and worse now.
38 0 ReplyIt's trivial to setup a LLM designed to argue or astroturf a point now. That's the problem.
11 0 ReplyI have been noticing a few here and there on Lemmy too. Unsure how to report it as I kept getting errors.
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Reddit started with nothing but sock puppet accounts created by the devs, so I could definitely see them doing the same thing to show "activity".
12 0 ReplyThink about all those running power delete suite or similar.
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