How social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit
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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

‘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

  • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
    41·
    11 months ago

    Take those stats with a huge pinch of salt

    Heads up! This data is likely out of date or inaccurate now that Reddit has decided to kill the open ecosystem that existed around Reddit. I don’t earn any money from this site, and if my calculations are correct it’d cost me a couple thousand dollars per month with their new API pricing

    You’re trying to measure the effect of something that affected your measurement system.

    • sndrtj@feddit.nlEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      Even if you ignore the latter half of 2023 there is a huge and consistent decline in number of posts per day.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Thanks, I wasn’t sure where the data came from, but I tried to check up on a few subs, and they were definitely not doing well.