How come reddit user is growing

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• trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The general population doesn’t care about freedom or censorship, they just want entertainment. Also a significant part of those “users” are bots.

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  • LocalAreaMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m seeing them here also, unfortunately.

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    • verifytheposter@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      How is that a bad thing

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• LocalAreaMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They recently started requiring logins, especially for old.reddit

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    And that is the only reason the userbase is rising, and the user base rising is the only reason they started requiring accounts to view the site.

    Numbers must go up.

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  • regdog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    So the user base is not actually growing. The people who were reading old.reddit without an account had to sign up now. But that was a one-time bump in registered accounts. It does not necessarily mean that the user base is increasing.

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  • verifytheposter@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Don’t they always?

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    • zikzak025@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      No, it used to be possible to browse the site without an account.

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• daannii@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Bo bo bots and sockpuppets

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• undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Could this post be titled a bit better?

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If not bot accounts, then probably old users making new accounts due to being auto-permabanned and not being able to get anywhere with the shitty AI support to restore it, and they aren’t subtracting banned accounts from the total user count.

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• chunk6235@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Doesn’t say anything about bots, so I’d bet that’s a good part of it.

  They were running bots in all sorts of places when I left like 3-4 years ago, and it’s only gotten worse. Plus, what easier way to drive up EnGaGeMenT with all of your UsErS than to constantly add more and more fake users to keep the handful of morons who stay around entertained.

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• luthis@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Reddit user is growing because reddit user is eating

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