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
    46·
    11 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
      36·
      11 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·
      11 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”