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[–] 27 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I'm seeing them here also, unfortunately.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    They recently started requiring logins, especially for old.reddit

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month 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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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Reddit user is growing because reddit user is eating

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Could this post be titled a bit better?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month 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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  • [–] 2 points 1 month 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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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Bo bo bots and sockpuppets

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