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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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[–] PlantObserver@lemmy.world 95 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.com 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Possible_EmuWrangler@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

If I remember right, there was a spam detector bot or similar which I'm sure was third party and it either went off altogether or the project was suspended after accessing the API was going to come in.