• Otter
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          187 months ago

          The numbers that matter are $$

          The issues right now probably won’t affect the money for a while

          Mods/users/tools leaving --> quality drop --> usage drop –> $$ drop

          • @[email protected]
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            107 months ago

            they have bots, AI, and astroturfing, their numbers will be fine despite quality having gone downhill for some time

            • @[email protected]
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              57 months ago

              Yeah, for a while corpos have their finger into astroturfing the shit out of almost every product. At some point it will have barely any user, but bots and corpo accounts.

          • @mindbleach
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            17 months ago

            They were already doing fuck-all in terms of ad money.

            • athos77
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              27 months ago

              They were already doing fuck-all in terms of ad money.

              They made over half a billion in revenue last year, most of it from ad money. The problem is that spez keeps bleeding that money chasing pipe dreams like reddit crypto and reddit NFTs.

      • Uranium3006
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        107 months ago

        They’re downward spiral is by this point inevitable. It takes time for a site to fully die and even the the URL usually still resolves, kinda like now MySpace and digg are still around in some form but totally irrelevant