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No doubt, both Redfit and Twitter use has nosedived. But, using reduced posting as an indicator of reduced active users presumes users have any say in what is promoted in a subreddit. And that's obviously wrong. Reddit is compromised through and through. Worse than Digg ever was.
No, let's also consider that there's much less content available to submit. Partly because of Google and SEO games. But also because news organizations have paywalled and Reddit chose to kill blogs by naming everything blog related to be bligspam. Back when there were serious writers writing blogs. This only benefitted the guys who paywall now.
Which means there's a lot less original content to submit. And no, LLM created nonsense doesn't count.
Yeah and no one wants to use their garbage app on mobile.
I fully agree with this because the events affected older and fairly active users (the ones most likely to be a mod, and to use a 3PA) way, way more than the rest, and yet they run the place. So if you got 50~70% of everyone leaving, you probably got [eyeballing] 90% of those leaving.