Comment on The level of engagement on Reddit these days
SteposVenzny@beehaw.org 3 months ago
I think this disparity in votes and comments is also hugely affected by how the UI has been changing over the years as well as the destruction of third party apps. The site is now designed in a way where active participation is less encouraged than ever before unless you’re running old reddit on a traditional computer with an ad blocker.
ultratiem@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Yeah I think this is spot on. Someone else mentioned that Reddit doesn’t really want you spend lots of time (yet anyway, till they can roll out better their new Dynamic Product Ads) on a single post. It would rather you scroll upvote and move on so they can try to get as much of the feed to your eyeballs as possible.
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