As Reddit Crushes Protests, Its User Traffic Returns to Normal
As Reddit Crushes Protests, Its User Traffic Returns to Normal
User visits and time spent on the social media platform normalize after traffic to Reddit briefly dipped last week during the blackout, according to SimilarWeb.
User visits and time spent on the social media platform normalize after traffic to Reddit briefly dipped last week during the blackout, according to SimilarWeb.
Edit: but also see https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/88139/Reddit-traffic-returning-normal-sort-of which explains that ad visits are still waaay down - and continue going downhill.
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Opening RIF is, unfortunately, a muscle memory for me. For these next 7 days when it's still open, I'll probably be on there on occasion, although the subs I'm subscribed to anymore are either closed, or they're ModCoord & SaveThirdPartyApp. I've unfollowed subs that re-opened, and frankly, I was never subscribed to much beyond specific communities I liked to begin with. The "statistically insignificant" millions of users on Apollo, RIF, etc. (last I counted RIF had 5 million downloads on the app store to Reddit's 100 million -- that 5 percent so talked about is not a small number.) My post histories are deleted, all my accounts but one are deleted, I'm now just there to see the end, and see the drama with my own eyes (and part of that, for me, is that I don't wholly trust what I don't see myself, either.)
That the daily traffic is at "normal" levels, to me, is interesting, because we're not in a "normal" news cycle right now. With Trump indictments, the sub implosion, a new Marvel show, new Final Fantasy games, a potential Biden impeachment, and reddit's implosion as a news story itself, Reddit ought to be booming right now, not "normal". That there are incredible surges of people in subreddits participating in reddit drama should be a warning sign, the way a Fogo De Chao ought to be worried when two dozen PETA people sit down at each table.
I solved the muscle memory issue by removing Apollo from my Home Screen. I opened my calculator more times than I care to admit.
I did something similar - but i moved the kbin PWA into the old place of the reddit app (yes, i was actually a huge fan of the reddit mobile app, it was the successor to alien blue after all)
Loved Alien Blue. For some reason the Reddit app didn’t do it for me I cannot remember why at this point. Maybe it was lack of iPad support back when I didn’t have an iPhone.
I had to uninstall altogether to break that muscle memory.