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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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[–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Unfortunately Reddit became such a database of niche information it's damn near unavoidable when it seems to comprise most of my search results nowadays.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I redirect from reddit to lemmy in my main web browser. I wish there were some sort of proxy so I could read reddit without that information being lost - but that's exactly the sort of service the API changes have killed. Fuck them for what they did to reddit.

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

    archive team runs a distributed effort to scrape and archive all of reddit, it gets uploaded to archive.org, so at least a large amount of it is accessible through there

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Well that's good at least but ideally I'd like some way of automating it like through an extension. I try viewing an answer to a question on reddit, and I get redirected to somewhere that stores the answer without giving reddit any traffic.

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