I think you still can

Nice, i just wonder how many people have 2-3 accounts to test out different communities

yeah you can’t distinguish between bots and humans. But like said in the post, currently the top100 commenting subs only take part in ~10% of the total comments. This would fit with the dead internet theory imo.

But it is also important to note that for this info the comments/day numbers come from two different sources, so it is hard to verify the validity.

The comment numbers of the top100 subreddits are from subredditstats.com, while the total is from the script used by blackout.photon-reddit.com

For subredditstats.com there is no way to see how the data is obtained/tracked.

But the blackout.photon site has its source code available. I just have not enough programming experience to tell if the comments/min number is obtained by a direct api call, or if it calculates the comment ID Delta between each call that it does (it calls the most recent comment each minute).

Thx for crossposting.

I also rescaled the Data in my own post, since the scaling on the post/day scale made it look like a -50% decrease.

I edited my comment that you linked with the new scaling :)

Snapshot from 4th june

Snapshot from 12th june

Snapshot from Today

Most traffic probably moved to Askreddit. Sadly there is no snapshot from the 13th, since this one would have the data from the 12th. During that time the comments/day peaked to 144k.

Source: https://archive.is/Q2vk3

The -30% value is taken from the peak value, but doesn’t look at the total amount posted per day.

So I took the data from the blackout.photon-reddit site source.

It seems that it makes a Reddit Api call every Minute searching the newest Post and Comment and calculates both per Minute rates.

I wanted to see the effect the Blackout had over the day, so I summed the data and plotted it: Seems like between 11th and 12th June the comments/day diminished by -19.2%. The posts/day saw a decline of -8.9%

The sub with the most Activity was probably Askreddit

this is my favorite comment on here so far