The Reddit was my go to. The place for advice. I learned a lot there.
But now, it’s all John Oliver.
Usually I wouldn’t complain about John Oliver. But this shit is getting ANNOYING. I WANNA LEARN ABOUT PIRACY GODDAMNIT. If a good service is shut down, I wouldn’t be able to hear about it if it wasn’t for you guys. If a website had a virus problem. If I was having trouble. Thank whoever made this website and this community. You’re our only hope.
Right.
So according to your detailed timeline, when is Reddit going to see a decline in new users and total monthly users, because it has only went up and up with no signs of stopping. Is that part of being on the edge of their grave, or just an unexplainable anomaly?
Also, neither TikTok or Instagram are discussion forums. TikTok is a short-video platform and instagram is a photo sharing platform. Your comparison is like saying McDonald’s outcompeted Ticketmaster.
If you haven’t noticed, reddit has a MASSIVE bot problem, I’d wager at least 1/3 of the posts on r/all are from repost bots and copy pased comments from bots probably about the same. How can you be sure these numbers are are even from real users?
Reddit has failed to grow as fast as other social media platforms, and has contracted over the course of this year, a trend which the blackout hasn’t helped.
ETA: Just to be clear, the first image comes from Statista, as stated, but the second two come from iTWire
ETA 2: Also to add, the majority of people on Reddit don’t discuss, they consume. They’re what we call lurkers, they just like to read through the posts and comments because they enjoy the content. Lurkers like Reddit, but are happy to consume elsewhere, and as such for those consumers, TikTok and Instagram remain viable alternatives because they have feeds of interesting content to scroll through. When someone’s sitting on the toilet, they don’t open Reddit to have a riveting discussion, they do it because they’re bored, and other social media platforms also alleviate boredom.