• Otter@lemmy.ca
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        1 year 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

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          1 year ago

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

          • Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de
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            1 year 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.

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            1 year 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.

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      1 year 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