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

  • @DuamerthraxEnglish
    24•9 months ago

    And people are getting wise to traffic numbers being inflated by bots.

    • ProdigalFrogEnglish
      9•9 months ago

      As a moderator of a fairly large sub over there, I strongly suspect this is happening on a mass scale. According to our stats, we’re getting 120k unique views a month (dropped dramtically during the exodus, but has seemingly returned to normal now), but posts rarely get more than 20 upvotes or comments. I know most redditers are lurkers, but even still, that just seems like an oddly high number of views.

      • @DuamerthraxEnglish
        6•9 months ago

        Give it time. Eventually the AI with learn to completely mimic human activity. Just not their actual spending habits.