How social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit
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A mass user protest six months ago over technical tweaks had big downstream effects, and now the ‘front page of the internet’ is changed for ever

‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit::A mass user protest six months ago over technical tweaks had big downstream effects, and now the ‘front page of the internet’ is changed for ever

  • PlantObserver@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1041·
    6 months ago

    I wonder if thats because most of the traffic was just bots all along who obviously aren’t going to leave in protest

    • tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      10·
      6 months ago

      Am I crazy or did the number of bots and ‘new users’ ramp up quite a bit around the protest also? Moderation was basically nonexistent, I would see obvious bots and trolls stay around when they would have been banned in no time before. I find it hard to trust any data on Reddit.