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
It was my primary social media site for over 10 years, and only one in probably the past five after ditching Facebook.
All I ever used to access it was baconreader. When the first talk of killing off the API started with the rate hike, I had a sinking feeling this was the end.
Rode it out till the last day, and reflexively kept opening baconreader just to realise again it was offline.
Decided to give Lemmy a try, and while it took a couple days to get it sorted, I have to say, for my daily browsing fix, it’s more than enough.
Yes, reddit is a giant database, and when google searches take me there I’ll view the info, but for everyday use, lurking, posting, and commenting, never again.
Not sure of its bias, user saturation, bot, shills, demographic, or what, but while smaller, the quality and content of the comments here just seems better. It reminds me of the early days on fark or even back on IRC.
It really does piss me off that greed over an IPO ruined something that had been a part of my life for so long.
I am enough of a grumpy old bastard that unless they fix the API and baconreader starts up again, I’m done. The internet is a big weird place, and I’m happy to go see other parts of it.
I just had my first experience today when I googled a question that took me to Reddit for the answer…which was deleted.
That happened to me too the other day, I stared at it for a bit and thought it must have been part of the mass deletion ppl did. It is one thing to read about it, it is an other to see it for yourself. But I fond my answer on a wiki page so it didn’t matter much. It was amusing tho.
If this happens again, and youre really insistant on reading that answer, people are saying the wayback machine should have that info for you. It’s sorta a win-win because you still get your answer and reddit doesnt get the revenue from your usage.
Then it’s worked, at least to some extent.
I agree with pretty much every single word you wrote and have gone through the same thought process, with the only exception being that I used RiF instead of Baconreader.