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‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit (www.theguardian.com)
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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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[–] 4grams@awful.systems 20 points 10 months ago

I used to live on reddit basically. I left due to the API shit they were pulling but did eventually get curious after closing my account but when I took a look, it was hot garbage. I unsigned from many of the big traffic subreddits and engaged in a lot of smaller and technical forums. Those users seem lately gone, or the ones who remained aren’t as knowledgeable or maybe there’s just been enough site changes that discussions aren’t happening like they used to.

In the meantime I’ve found fallbacks that I enjoy more, this place feels like early day Reddit which is super fun.