Most major subreddits show a decrease of between 50 and 90 percent in average daily posts and comments, when compared to a year ago

I want to believe this is due to the protests and people noping out (and I bet some of it is) but this observation ignores the Covid effect.

Reddit aside, basically every online community I frequent has seen a major dip following the end of the worst of the pandemic. Slack and Discord communities I have been in for years have tanked considerably. Tons of YouTubers I follow have dropped off majorly in the frequency of new videos. Forums are way sleepier. Engagement on a lot of social sharing platforms I use is way down.

I think a big chunk of this is people being able to go out into the real world again and also having spent a couple years being chronically online because that was kinda all there was to do. And now they're wanting anything but that.