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Has Reddit’s traffic really quadrupled in 6 months? (www.bandt.com.au)

submitted 8 months ago by DisOne@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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If they were just talking about Reddit, I’d assume something dodgy was going on connected with the IPO. But Quora is supposedly back from the dead too… Am I missing something glaringly obvious here?

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[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 55 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Simplest explanation is that the general public doesn't give a shit and while Facebook is on the downturn (not sure if numbers can back that up) people need to go somewhere else. Maybe that is reddit right now, they got the marketing and content to get people on it.

[–] _sideffect@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I'd like to hear that crapbook is going downhill, but its share price says otherwise

[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 29 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Its share price doesn't matter in this context, since Meta also owns Instagram, which is absolutely not going downhill at the moment.

Facebook however is losing active users, especially in the younger age ranges and even more pronounced in Europe and the US.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They also own WhatsApp which has a massive user base outside of the US.

[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

But it's not really a cash cow. At least I don't know of any widespread attempts at monetization (yet).

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

WhatsApp is monetized by selling your private data, same as.FB

[–] originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 18 points 8 months ago

Enron’s share price was very high right up until the end, too. Share price is not necessarily a good indicator of underlying fundamentals

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

Stock price isn't a representation of the current value of a company, it's the projected value of a company down the line.