Most major subreddits show a decrease of between 50 and 90 percent in average daily posts and comments, when compared to a year ago. This suggests the problem is way fewer users, not the same number of users browsing less. The huge and universal dropoff also suggests that people left, either because of the changes or the protests, and they aren’t coming back.

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.