Bad guys always win outside of movies I guess.

Yep, not an unexpected outcome. Enshittification usually has a direct correlation with profitability; most people simply love being the product, because the alternative takes a little effort.

Reddit is still hot garbage, though, and that fact is only growing worse according to my friend group that still goes there on occasion. I much prefer Fedi.

I was A member for well over 11 years. I handed off subreddits, deleted all my content, then deleted my account.

Never been back other than when it pops up to a very specific question I have. Even then, if I can find the answer somewhere else I will.

Proliferation of bots ≠ popular.

How much of the traffic increase is bots. Because we still don’t have those numbers and I still don’t believe this is anything but bot influx and reddit grifting using ads.