Just in case anyone here was wondering how Reddit’s numbers are looking these days…
Data and visuals from https://subredditstats.com/r/askreddit
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What the hell happened in the second half of 2020?
I would guess bot activity related to covid or any other american political thing
George Floyd was murdered on May 25. COVID was ravaging the world. The presidential election cycle was in full swing. And I’m sure much more.
Anna I’m sure much more.
Hello fellow Gboard user. I would have also noticed “abs” in place of “and”.
Fucking thing gets worse every goddamned day. Thanks, lol
It does feel this way… but why?! Shouldn’t it be getting better with more training data? Is other people’s shitty typing data fucking up my experience?
Or maybe my swiping technique is getting lazy? I’m not sure, but it definitely feels worse than a few years ago.
It could be that the people’s typing (and therefore the training data) includes so many different unique movements that an “average” of all of them doesn’t actually look like any real person’s individual typing pattern. Sorta how some one-size-fits-all designs don’t fit any one person perfectly.
This seems plausible to me.
They should make it smarter and group users based on their swipe technique and have a separate model for each group.
If you make the same typo often enough and don’t correct it with the autocorrect feature (eg backspacing or jumping to the wrong character instead) Gboard will think it’s what you’re meaning to type and add it to your dictionary. When it comes up in the little autocorrect thing above your keyboard, you can drag it into the trash. You could also go through your dictionary and delete specific words as well. That’s what works for me anyways, not sure if I’m correct
Wait what? I can delete suggestions‽
Holy shit, I just tried it! WTF‽‽
Happy to help! Bonus tip, on Android you can hold the space bar down and slide the cursor left or right to bring it to specific letters too. On apple you can jump lines with the cursor by doing the same thing, just up/down instead
Bored people from the Coronavirus + US Election, if I were to hazard a guess?
Covid.
That was my immediate guess, but Covid blew up in March, and the Reddit graph doesn’t go crazy until a few months later. It is hard to see what else could possibly explain it though; I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s just an error in the axis labelling or something.
George Floyd was the end of May, then the protests and the election over the summer.
US election spam
Reddit’s content has taken an absolute nose dive, I still lurk, but every time I think about posting, I close out the tab and leave now. The site has also become an ad filled dumpster fire.
To me it also feels like the ratio of low effort content posts or reposts VS original content has changed considerably. At least when browsing /r/all.
Yes and garbage subs being promoted as well… Like Outfits anD AITAH.
Same here
Reddit has gotten worse over time
It isn’t long before the final nail in the coffin gets hammered in
You mean the API changes that stopped the only source of these statistics from collecting them stopped effectively collecting them?
80% year on year drop is impressive
It’s almost like removing the third party apps that the majority of actual commenters and posters enjoyed was a monumentally stupid decision
I’m still sickened when I want to see a piece of media discussed and a few niggles with lemmy but I hate reddit now so I can’t go back.
Try geddit if you’re on android. It’s an app shell for reddits RSS feed. There’s no logging in, and thusly no voting or commenting, but it does allow you to create a front page and it lets you view the first like 30 comments. Also there’s no ads and NSFW content isn’t blocked. It’s pretty good for what it is and you don’t have to give Reddit money.
Find it on GitHub. I know you said you hate it and you’re never going back, and I’m right there with you, but it is nice to check in on some of my favorite Niche subreddits once in awhile
Thanks man
Does that mean askreddit is good again?
Nope. It just means there are bots left chatting amongst themselves ;)
Do you do the sex? What’s the saddest song ever? What’s the sexiest sex ever? Sad song? Sex?
No joke, the two posts I saw in the related section under some fuckin question i found from google was along the lines of ‘have you had sex with a disabled person? how was it?’ and the other was ‘women of reddit, what do you think during doggy style’
like what the fuck?? Who engages with this trash (aside from all the bots)
Jeez lemmy is full of prudes.
There is SO MUCH WRONG with AskReddit…the reposts, the bots, the memes, the hivemind responses…
And you pick “ewww sex” as the reason it’s trash?
i don’t think people care so much that the qeustions are about sex, but rather that the content is lazy and poorly thought out. most of the time i see a post like that it reads like it was written by a 14 year old who didn’t bother to look at the dozens of prior threads asking basically the same thing.
Your forgetting “What’s the saddest sex song to have sex to when you’re depressed (sad)?”
Maybe the bots are Isabella Rossellini fans?
The Saddest Music in the World https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366996
Ouch
Yeah, but I’m sure if you extend the graph to 0 it will… … … Ouch!
This is most pleasing
I loved Reddit, until executives took a nosedive and their admins screwed my account over with a blatantly false suspension.
Swartz would be appalled at what Huffman has done.
i got perma banned once for… absolutely no reason. it got appealed when i asked why i was perma banned in my appeal
They completely ignored my appeal. 0 response. Later that wrongful suspension was used to justify a permanent suspension.
I got some of my OC removed on reddit. When that happened, I got a message from the sub’s moderators about the reason. Sometimes the reasoning did not make sense to me but in most cases it was in some way understandable. (I am also sure I must’ve pissed of a mod of the German sub because at some point they deleted whatever I posted…)
Anyway, what I want to say is: I got one OC post removed here on lemmy and was given no notification nor explanation. I only noticed it by accident. I hate it here.
Moderation log is public here - the reasoning you’re looking for could be in there.
Ah! Thank you. That is good to know.
Same here
I was recently permanently banned from a subreddit for being a “spam” account
I tried to reason with the mods but they didn’t listen
I got banned because an egomaniac janny spammer I outed as a reactionary stalked me around the site and kept reporting my comments, and I got tired of appealing and having the admins ban their alts while allowing them to still operate on the site.
Basically they ran a bunch of political subs that appealed to Reddit’s userbase, but also had self-published a red/rape-pill book, and other actual copaganda materials that made light of police violence etc for police unions. They would ban anyone who mentioned this and report anyone who posted his other materials as doxxing attempts, even though they themselves would advertise the same materials and their own persona as a writer+comic artist.
I got banned from r/sports for talking about Australian Rules Football, I also got banned from r/Australia for showing a Simpson’s meme about taxes. So I left Reddit, 'tis a silly place
The satisfaction of seeing this is hard to describe. Internet 1 : 0 Reddit
what happened in the 3rd quarter of 2020? from 0 to 200k comments, and then down again.
US elections.
Outages I guess…
outages happen more frequently than that.
Blackout protest for George Floyd if I remember correctly, that might have been the previous dip in 2020 though.
Wow I didn’t know it dropped off a cliff like that in July
Has the community changed much during that time?
Yes. Drastically. It is almost as big of a difference as when Reddit flipped, overnight, from pro Bernie to pro Clinton in the 2016 election.
Comments and post quality took a nose dive. And I don’t mean the typical summer change, I mean drastic and significant change.
I clicked on an AskReddit link in google earlier today and wow the posts that receive engagement there now… From the little I’ve seen since leaving, reddit in general has dropped off a fuckin cliff in regards to content quality
I seen that too. It has become especially apparent on a small sub I still view as it didn’t really migrate.
It went from people in their 20s discussing shared experiences with a medical condition, with the occasional high schooler dropping by to ask something. To babys first experiences, with condition. Absolutely filled to the brim with 13-17 year olds.
I’m fine with them being there and asking questions and talking, but not when every post and comment is just more teenage drama.
I seen a similar thing on another sub, while that has always screwed younger then the first, it definitely feels like it dropped like 5 years in average age.
They alienated percisly thewrong subset of users
I figured the highest engagement users would leave because they’d care the most about the api changes but wow, I checked a few subs and they all had harsh engagement drops just like askreddit.
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I was commenting regularly. Now I comment here, sorry y’all.
Ditto
I think that’s what has surprised me the most. When I moved here after the API shutdown, things seemed pretty slow. But now it seems activity is really picking up. I would be very interested to see the fediverse growth rate vs. Reddit’s when it first started. I’m just surprised to see how quickly things are changing here.
The momentum is strong. It’s rather exciting to see and be part of. We are the change we wanted.
The best part is now all the foundations are here too so when the next big ‘event’ happens Lemmy will be in an even better position to absorb all those users.
You’re right. It was rough at first. A lot of outages, confusion, etc. But more people on now, more hand-holding for newbies, etc. It’ll be easier to adjust I feel.
I’m actually quite surprised by this, but satisfied nonetheless.
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Same
I’m still waiting for the day Reddit finally dies
Nothing ever truly dies on the Internet, unless it’s a Google service. /s
