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

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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

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[-] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 3 points 10 months ago

While traffic has not changed substantially, many users report the quality of content and the kinds of posts that are surfaced on user homepages now seem different.

This was on the front page a day or 2 ago, right near the top:

It seemed... inorganic. And I'm not sure what the gold trim is on those posts. Other posts didn't have them.

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