How social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit
www.theguardian.com
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

Year-end recap from The Guardian.

  • heavyboots@lemmy.mlEnglish
    47·
    10 months ago

    I feel like it’s unfortunate they didn’t highlight the open source options where the customer is not the product as their article closer, but rather of a quote about how Reddit could be such a better place. Seems to entirely miss the point.

    • spider@lemmy.nzOP
      361·
      10 months ago

      No surprise there; it’s the same mainstream media that rarely acknowledges the existence of Linux or third-party political candidates.

    • Seven@startrek.website
      10·
      10 months ago

      They did do a beginner’s guide to Mastodon after Musk infested Twitter, but it does seem like they don’t consider Lemmy or Mastodon to be “serious”

    • WarmSoda@lemm.ee
      8·
      10 months ago

      They also quote one user multiple times throughout the article. Well, two if you count the deleted comment.

      Zero mention of how ads are now every other post. And zero mention of why everyone hates the official app. “Navigation”? What