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Paulius Jul 6, 2023

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 - Lemmy.world

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 [http://Discord.com]: +0.51% - Twitter.com [http://Twitter.com]: -1.65% - Instagram.com [http://Instagram.com]: -1.35% - Facebook.com [http://Facebook.com]: -3.18% - TikTok.com [http://TikTok.com]: +0.77% - Pinterest.com [http://Pinterest.com]: -2.27% - Youtube.com [http://Youtube.com]: -2.02%

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jray4559 Jul 7, 2023

This gets made back by September.

95% of people who use reddit use the official app or website, and don’t notice a single thing except the occasional stray John Oliver meme.

Not enough hobby communities left.

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ddkman

I think you are being very pessimistic about this. Reddit’s collapse will not be a linear process. If it happens mind you.

But if it happens:

First the most active 3% leaves. But the 3% creates a huge hole in the overall activity of the site. So another 3% leaves. And the site will at an ever increasing speed reach the point of no return. Reddits main user base is the drooling masses who want to read gossip instead of working.

But if there is no free entertainment, the masses just move on. Basically all a platform is, is it’s core audience.