Reddit protest updates: news on the apps shutting down and Reddit’s fights with mods
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Reddit communities went dark to protest recent changes.
  • Elcripple@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Vocal minority though, surely?
    I’ve visited a few times on Desktop (old.reddit) since the shutdown and the rate of new content seems to have slowed down quite drastically.

    Twitter metrics used to point to 90% of the content coming from 10% of the users.
    If Reddit is similar, it makes sense to assume that many of the very active users were on 3rd party apps (to improve the basic experience, moderation etc.) so those being unavailable could put them off entirely (I know I’m using Reddit a fraction of what I once was).

    • loobkoob@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      I believe the rule of thumb is the 90:9:1 ratio:

      • 1% of users create original content
      • 9% of users interact with that content - voting/commenting on it, sharing it, etc.
      • 90% of users are essentially just in read-only mode
      • pensivepangolin@lemmy.world
        0·
        1 year ago

        Not that I don’t believe you, but do you have a source about that? Quite literally for the sake of my curiosity/further reading

        • bassomitron@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule

          Seems like in 2014, a peer-reviewed study confirmed that it’s pretty close to accurate:

          A 2014 peer-reviewed paper entitled “The 1% Rule in Four Digital Health Social Networks: An Observational Study” empirically examined the 1% rule in health-oriented online forums. The paper concluded that the 1% rule was consistent across the four support groups, with a handful of “Superusers” generating the vast majority of content.[6] A study later that year, from a separate group of researchers, replicated the 2014 van Mierlo study in an online forum for depression.[7] Results indicated that the distribution frequency of the 1% rule fit followed Zipf’s Law, which is a specific type of power law.