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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

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[–] zcd@kbin.social 97 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They’ve been astroturfing with bots to pump those numbers

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There are soooo many GPT comments and threads on Reddit, at least when I left on the first. I imagine it’s going to get worse and worse now.

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

It's trivial to setup a LLM designed to argue or astroturf a point now. That's the problem.

[–] dm1336@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

I have been noticing a few here and there on Lemmy too. Unsure how to report it as I kept getting errors.

[–] serenai@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

Reddit started with nothing but sock puppet accounts created by the devs, so I could definitely see them doing the same thing to show "activity".

[–] Vegoon@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Think about all those running power delete suite or similar.