Article from August of this year (not too cancerous once you get through the first two splash screens).
Reddit shares DROPPED despite increase revenue. Why? Objective signs of enshittification:
- declining active user base
- massive increases in revenue.
People are leaving so the ones that remain must be more heavily monetized, which leads to more people leaving–the enshittification death spiral.
Reddit will no longer be reporting logged-in users as a separate metric lol
The bizarre bans is what made me leave recently. Banned from a default sub i had been in for years for posting a link. There was no rules against links and the reason given was “we don’t like the link” then told “we don’t have to give warnings” when I asked why I would be permanently banned for doing something that isn’t against the rules. Then that same thing happened in another sub the next day. I don’t know what’s going on there but it’s almost like they want to cull the users who aren’t conforming to the way they want the content to be ingested.
reddit hates link dropping, its almost an auto-ban, or auto-deletion if you are lucky.