• dan96kid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    To make a long story short… Reddit’s doing a DEEPLY UNPOPULAR API change that effectively wipes out 3rd party tools and clients, which sparked site-wide protests. Reddit’s CEO is now having a pretty public meltdown and threatening moderators partaking in said protests. Lemmy popped up in a good number of discussions on Reddit in regards to the situation. Queue the start of a mass-exodus of Reddit users and mods to Lemmy

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      1 year ago

      Gotcha. I’m generally aware of what’s going on over there but wasn’t sure if a particular post or action caused the big surge today.