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Most major subreddits show a decrease of between 50 and 90 percent in average daily posts and comments, when compared to a year ago. This suggests the problem is way fewer users, not the same number of users browsing less. The huge and universal dropoff also suggests that people left, either because of the changes or the protests, and they aren’t coming back.
I think we’re still a ways away from that… there’s still many technical, moderation, and social feature hurdles we need to get over.
I’m pretty happy we’re even as lively as we are.