DisOneMar 11, 2024

Has Reddit’s traffic really quadrupled in 6 months?

https://lemm.ee/post/26447516

Has Reddit’s traffic really quadrupled in 6 months? - lemm.ee

If they were just talking about Reddit, I’d assume something dodgy was going on connected with the IPO. But Quora is supposedly back from the dead too… Am I missing something glaringly obvious here?

Show threadcrispy_kiltMar 11, 2024
They are probably paying clickfarms.
Show threadwise_pancakeMar 11, 2024

Reddit probably isn’t, as that would be cooking their metrics and Huffman would get fucked by the long arm of the SEC. They might still be, Huffman loves Elon and Elon got away with tons of shit.

Advertisers are probably paying more content farms to astroturf it though.

Plus without the API, do you really think people just stopped scraping Reddit? They just run a headless Chrome instance now and I bet Reddit doesn’t look the gift horse of traffic in the mouth.

Show threadHypx
Except I can totally see them committing securities fraud in order to pump up the numbers. It seems very much like something they would do.
Mar 11, 2024 at 12:29pmWeb
Show threadnillocMar 11, 2024

I think that’s what this part of the comment was about:

They might still be, Huffman loves Elon and Elon got away with tons of shit.