Reddit is getting bigger.

Reddit says its daily users are up 47 percent year-over-year. Reddit just turned a profit for the first time. As part of its third-quarter earnings results released on Tuesday, the company reported a profit of $29.9 million, along with $348.4 million in revenue — a 68 percent increase year over year.

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    24 days ago

    I seriously doubt there are even half that many users these days. Go look at the posts and comments on the site now. They’re all pointless drivel, and obvious bot posts designed to get other bots and rubes to comment. Stuff like “What is your favorite color and why” makes it to the front page with a hundred thousand upvotes. I mean come on! How could that be actual people?

  • gcheliotis@lemmy.world
    31·
    24 days ago

    Well looks like the great Reddit exodus wasn’t so great after all and Reddit more than made up for it. Financially at least, things are looking up for them. I kinda really wish it weren’t so… but at least some of us got to know Lemmy as a consequence.

  • mysoulishome@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    24 days ago

    On the whole it’s gone way downhill since the API fiasco in my opinion. The only thing worth a damn on Reddit nowadays is that some specific communities are better than elsewhere (sports, mental health, niche hobbies) but only because discussion boards (php) have mostly died and Facebook somehow manages to even MORE toxic as far as racism, sexism, etc.

    It’s depressing. At one time Reddit on the whole as an entity (not the company, the community) was very vibrant and amazing.

    • Zement@feddit.nl
      6·
      24 days ago

      Was a Member since 2012… it all went downhill 2016 when 4Chan-Stormfront-Nazis “grew up” and moved over to reddit. Man I hope these people taste their own medicine better sooner than later.

  • vxx@lemmy.world
    9·
    24 days ago

    Traffic in big subreddits dropped up to 30% whenever there was some news that another huge botfarm was busted.

    Edit:

    Or when Russia is busy starting a war. Completely natural pattern there. The screenshot is from 2022