• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    More important is originality…

    Lots of people/bots would just take an existing post from Reddit, and repost it. Sometimes to a different sub, sometimes to the same sub.

    For most users, it was still “new” because they hadn’t seen it before.

    Those accounts are still reposting. There’s more than few that do it here too.

    But that OC has been drastically cut down, there’s just a delay in users noticing that there’s fewer and fewer “new” reposts going around.

    So reddit doesn’t see a huge decrease in users immediately, but time on site and daily users will continue to decrease

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      10 months ago

      More important is originality…

      Is it, though? I left Reddit for here, so don’t take this as being in their defense, but if originality and ad revenue were meaningfully correlated, Facebook and Instagram would be bastions of original content.

      Hell, some of the most profitable YouTubers only post reaction content.