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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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[–] bykdd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Front page of the Ai bots.Not even feeling real some comments.

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

Yep; other then forgetting blind people exist, that was one of my main reasons for leaving. There were all these weird numbered accounts that were definitely just bots regurgitating someone else's comment or post. I'm disappointed that wasn't mentioned in the article.