InEnduringGrowStrong is one of the two admins besides TheDude and they’ve already clarified in this very thread.

Two things I noticed was most subreddits that weren’t front pagers are getting way less traffic than they used to across the entire site.

The other is why I left: I saw a front page millions of subscribers subreddit go out of their way to temporarily bot purge during the IPO* drama. Upvotes went from 10k+ to…hundreds. Posting frequency fell off a cliff. It was so disturbing I left because I saw that in conjunction with Benn Jordan’s video estimating how much of xshitter was bot traffic which he estimated to be a full third of all traffic on xshitler a year ago.

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