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

  • The_Vampire@lemmy.worldEnglish
    571·
    9 months ago

    On the note of traffic, I still browse Reddit because it has niche communities that I want to interact with. However, I don’t comment, post, or even up/downvote anymore. My interaction is now purely browsing, and I imagine it may be similar for other once-power users.

    • ATDA@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      9 months ago

      Unfortunately Reddit became such a database of niche information it’s damn near unavoidable when it seems to comprise most of my search results nowadays.

      • ipkpjersi@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        I redirect from reddit to lemmy in my main web browser. I wish there were some sort of proxy so I could read reddit without that information being lost - but that’s exactly the sort of service the API changes have killed. Fuck them for what they did to reddit.

        • reddithalation@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          5·
          9 months ago

          archive team runs a distributed effort to scrape and archive all of reddit, it gets uploaded to archive.org, so at least a large amount of it is accessible through there

          • ipkpjersi@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            9 months ago

            Well that’s good at least but ideally I’d like some way of automating it like through an extension. I try viewing an answer to a question on reddit, and I get redirected to somewhere that stores the answer without giving reddit any traffic.

    • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      9 months ago

      Same here. I actually went a step further and decided to browse the site permanently logged off. I do not wanna access my old account anymore (which I still didn’t delete).

      • amazing_stories@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        This is what I do. Also, I mostly access reddit from a RSS feed so I don’t even really visit the site much. I read everything I want in my feed reader, and maybe look at the comments on the site if a particular post looks interesting. Never logged in, never comment, never vote on a post.

        • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          I’m still glad Reddit actually lets you browse their site logged off.

          That’s something that Twitter-I mean X doesn’t do anymore.

    • Go-On-A-Steam-Train@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      I am the same - I obliterated all my posts and comments, and try to see whatever answer I can’t find elsewhere, and run.

      It was much easier than I thought it would be, which was a nice surprise. :)