L4sBot@lemmy.worldMB to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoReddit captures 7% to 16% less audience time during blackoutwww.similarweb.comexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up126arrow-down10
arrow-up126arrow-down1external-linkReddit captures 7% to 16% less audience time during blackoutwww.similarweb.comL4sBot@lemmy.worldMB to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square12fedilink
minus-squarehenry_rowengartner@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoWell, duh. That just means that 93-84% of Redditors are bots. Bots didn’t know there was a shutdown, so those bots kept slamming reddit. So with that data I now can assume Reddit was only 7-16% human.
minus-squareWhipTheLlama@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
Well, duh. That just means that 93-84% of Redditors are bots. Bots didn’t know there was a shutdown, so those bots kept slamming reddit. So with that data I now can assume Reddit was only 7-16% human.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
That’s… Eerily scary