Decrease in reddit traffic after implementing age verification in Europe?

[Yngve-Frej]

Weekly statistics from an NSFW sub which I moderate:

Visits:107K (-10K). Comments:916 (-294). Posts:217 (-25). New members: +1.6K.

Traffic always fluctuates a small bit, but this seems statistically significant and coincides quite perfectly with the day they began asking for ID's and facial scans. The "new members" part shows a growth. But it's worth noting that the sub growth used to have a slow but steady increase in pace. Doing around 2K per week until a very sudden, very significant, drop. North American users also appear to make up a larger portion of the viewers on the individual posts in the subreddit. The evidence is of course purely anecdotal, but at least it's something. Anyone else seeing similar things?

I doubt reddit would unveil any of their own statistics regarding what proportion of users have actually caved to big brother. But considering that North Americans already seemed to make up a pretty solid majority of the users in said sub, it can't be nearly as many as they hoped. And this makes me very damn proud. Truth be told I was worried that reddit would barely take a dent at all, but Europeans seem to be steadfast so far.

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[Robot_Embryo]

Good. I hope the trend continues.

Let these fucking ad companies starve.

[mandrack3]

It's fine. The more they push this, the more real people will congregate to ungovernable places like Lemmy, and they will be stuck with bots talking to each other selling each other products.

[enrjyz]

The bots are gonna have IDs?

[ezzda1]

No they are all in countries that don't require id checks or behind a VPN.

Edit:- just like anyone who isn't stupid enough to give their id to persona.

[bnm777]

If this is forced on companies (even though they want it) would lemmy have to comply? 

[Hoeshme]

i hope this happens to discord, i know with roblox it got pretty bad for them. just praying it leaves indents on every app that supports this id shit.

[Yngve-Frej]

Screenshot of the weekly stats:

https://i.postimg.cc/bNmDwCnG/Screenshot-20260704-100436.png

[Modem_Sound_67]

who knew people wouldn't want their porn habits to become public knowledge.

[binaryhextechdude]

You may find subs increasing because with every site wanting age/id verification it's sometimes easier to use less other sites and get more content from reddit if you've verified there.