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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

How social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit

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How social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

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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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Its karma farm, they wait to repost a popular post, then post the most popular comments from the old one verbatim. Its gotten really bad

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