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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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[–] solrize@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Interesting. It never really occurred to me to look at the front page but I guess it is supposed to be popular. I look mostly at a few specific subreddits and afaict they haven't changed much.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

Haha. You made a comment about nothing changing on Reddit, yet you haven't checked the main selling point of the site or anything outside your old sub bubble?

I've checked both, and believe that content and comment quality is much lower ... but there was a steady decline in quality the entire time Reddits user base grew ... because the majority of the human population are, quite simply, idiots.