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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 39 points 2 years ago (8 children)

When reddit shut down their api every single subreddit on the site went down in comment activity by 75% or more. Comment activity has only been decreasing in the month since then. Post activity has been in decline as well.

Whether this means people stopped using the site entirely or not is up for debate. But in terms of damage to the community on the site it is the single biggest social media failure I have seen on the web since Digg. Even Musk hasn't damaged Twitter as much as the api change has damaged reddit.

[–] fred@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Wow. Where did you get those numbers, would love to peruse

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago (6 children)

https://subredditstats.com

Go to literally any subreddit, scroll to the comments per day graph and check out the drop on July 11th. The official date of the change was July 1st but they delayed it or something with a grace period. That drop on July 11th is the api drop.

Some examples in order - /r/mildlyinfuriating /r/whitepeopletwitter /r/gaming /r/Askreddit

[–] fred@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What is happening over there is one of the biggest disasters I've ever seen online and the fact that it's going unreported on while Twitter and Musk continue to get all the attention is absolutely ridiculous. Reddit is collapsing and unless they do something enormous it is currently in a death spiral.

[–] bigboopballs@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Reddit is collapsing and unless they do something enormous it is currently in a death spiral.

where will all the nazis go!?

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

Twitter by the looks of things.

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