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‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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‘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

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[–] 102 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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.

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