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0 pointstroyvit3y ago0 comments

> if enough users suddenly remove their whole history from Reddit.

Reddit has around 52 million users according to this unknown source I dug up[1]. Only the people who care the most about this situation will actually delete their posts (especially with a python script). What's that, like 500k people? So yeah only the "best" data will be removed from Reddit, but that's not even the data that makes them money. It's your data, remove it, but I think it's an illusion that it'll hurt Reddit any.

[1] https://backlinko.com/reddit-users#reddit-daily-active-users

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throw12303y ago

overwhelming majority of their users are readers. very few actually bother to write something, and even fewer have something valuable to say. those are the ones with high karma and those are the ones that drive traffic to the site. so yeah, even if 50k users who drive traffic delete and move out, it matters to the site.

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