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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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[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A third party website analytics company probably couldn't track the traffic of the users who left in the first place- the whole ordeal was about unofficial apps and API usage.

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

That's actually a great point. If everyone using the apps bailed it would be a huge number decline that wouldn't register as even a blip on similarweb so it's a terrible metric.