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As Reddit Crushes Protests, Its User Traffic Returns to Normal

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As Reddit Crushes Protests, Its User Traffic Returns to Normal

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

User visits and time spent on the social media platform normalize after traffic to Reddit briefly dipped last week during the blackout, according to SimilarWeb.

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Engagement is up because an algorithm optimized it.

The algorithm does not care if that engagement is negative or toxic.

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