• UnicornMeatBanned from community
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    5 months ago

    Hmmm, looks like a lot of people like the “terrible” tabloid. Maybe it’s not that terrible. :)

    Citation needed

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      5 months ago

      Citation needed

      traffic estimates (june 2025): • total visits: ~237 million per month (Press Gazette) (Wikipedia)

      • daily average visits: roughly 7.9 million a day (237 million ÷ 30). (Wikipedia)

      regional breakdown: • traffic is split evenly between UK and US users (~38% US, ~37% UK; rest global) (Wikipedia)

      performance trend: • in the US, visits in May were reported at ~87 M per month (Wikipedia) (The Guardian) (Press Gazette)

      how it’s doing overall: MailOnline remains one of the most visited English‑language newspaper websites globally. It draws hundreds of millions of visits monthly and millions daily. (Press Gazette) (Wikipedia)

      in short:

      monthly traffic: ~237 million visits

      daily traffic: ~7–8 million visits

      Oh man, I guess just because you hate it doesn’t mean it’s doing bad. Oh well. You keep hating, they’ll keep making money, and I’ll keep posting stuff from them. :)

      I’ll keep laughing about it too.

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        5 months ago

        Conveniently skipping wikipedia’s Criticism section to sing the praises of a foreign country’s news organization doesn’t scream Selection Bias at all. /s

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          5 months ago

          Just like how you conveniently skip how many people like and visit the Daily Mail. Doesn’t scream Selection Bias at all. /s

          Plus you didn’t ask for facts about criticism.

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            5 months ago

            You conflate visiting a page with liking it or supporting it. The fact I’m in your community proves people sometimes go to corners of the internet they don’t like. But far be it from me to explain to a conservative that winning a popularity contest doesn’t mean it’s correct or right in any way.

            No you’re right, when discussing quality of a news source I don’t mean we should talk about any criticism levied against them repeatedly over the years. Why do that when you agree with this pro-Trump article right here?

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              5 months ago

              You conflate visiting a page with liking it or supporting it.

              So millions of people visit a site daily, and have so over years, because they don’t like it. Ok. Sure.

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                5 months ago

                Top notch discourse. 👍 I don’t know why this place isn’t teeming with intellectuals. Your walled garden isn’t dying or anything.

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                  5 months ago

                  My walled garden is doing awesome. Why would it be dying? I’m posting exactly what I want. And it’s not going away. I’m not going away.

                  But hey, I’m just the lowly Lemmy jester after all. So I’m no bother. :)

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                    5 months ago

                    The sequel to your community seems healthier. It routinely stays in the positive. But you’re right, you don’t need people commenting, voting, or posting to be a healthy online community. Every visitor is it’s own upvote because people only click on links they adore and are fanatics about.