[parineum]

> Mobile users fundamentally engage with the platform in different ways. For one, they form a different demographic segment than older users, and secondly the mobile app frames and filters content in uniquely mobile ways. High-signal content is much more difficult to craft on a mobile device so more mobile use represents a greater proportion of content noise.

I'd argue the only thing that really matters about mobile users is they are online _way_ more often. Engagement can be higher on mobile because the access is mobile.

[kelseyfrog]

Maybe? I guess I'm speaking from personal experience here when I say writing in-depth sourced and edited comments[higher quality] is more difficult for me on a mobile device. But perhaps, my experience not the norm. Is it different for others?

[Tostino]

The proportion of users on mobile devices could explain some of the sliding quality. I know if I am using a mobile device, it's primarily for content consumption. I can't quickly reply in any depth with a mobile keyboard, so that waits until I am at a full PC, which is a smaller and smaller proportion of the time I am actually using Reddit in recent years.

[GekkePrutser]

Engagement isn't about how much time you spend in the editor writing insightful comments. It's how much you scroll through the feed laced with ads. Sadly.

[kelseyfrog]

For sure. Optimizing for MAUs disincentives quality content.

[pixl97]

Quantity of engagement > quality of engagement

Or "more ads better"

[ImPostingOnHN]

and app means more user info for ads