Did Reddit get massive because of Digg users making a beeline towards them or were they already big before that?

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    1 year ago

    What is most interesting about that site you linked is further down the page - it shows the number of subs still growing - but that graph cuts off at 2022. The post and comments per day plunged in early July and have not recovered. And the top poster and commenter is the same user - u/deleted

    And as you say, reddit has alienated a heap of good mods - and they are the true foundation of a site like this, not users

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      1 year ago

      I checked a politics, publicfreakout and trashy, they all had subscribers going through the roof. I think they’re fucking with the sub numbers.

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      1 year ago

      That’s interesting to see this steady decline way before the most controversial changes.

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        1 year ago

        I think that may be stemming from the earlier changes when they shut down a large number of fairly popular but controversial subs, that drove some active commenters away. Plus they started getting very ban happy in the last couple of years, that absolutely has a damping effect