so you’re saying Reddit peaked in 2019 and has been downhill ever since regardless of API shenanigans?
It all depends on the subs you interacted with.
If you allowed the defaults, news and politics to show up?
It has been a shit hole for at least a decade.
If you only viewed things like askhistorians and other focused and tightly moderated subs?
The place it still pretty good.
so you’re saying Reddit peaked in 2019
You’re close to a decade to late for peak reddit
The data seems to indicate that the number of NSFW posts didn’t increase over time, but rather that the number of SFW posts decreased over time. I think the data suggests an interpretation that is vastly more interesting than simply that Reddit got hornier. It looks like something happened that discouraged people from posting SFW questions. Mod change? Rule change? Demographic change? I don’t know
You mean starting around the time that everyone was staying home and unable to goto venues that promote relationships and casual hook ups?
Weird.
Well that graph shows total posts and SFW posts have declined massively. NSFW posts have grown but the impact will be disproportionately noticable as the aite is basically in decline otherwise.
That’s all assuming AskReddit is representative of the site as a whole.
Since the Reddit third party API change, I only (and I mean only) use Reddit for porn. Not checking the ‘frontpage’, straight to the porn subreddits (within the browser ofc).