‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit::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

  • veroxii
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    6 months ago

    Exactly. It was time to move on. I remember leaving BBS Fidonet for Usenet. Usenet for Slashdot. Slashdot for Reddit. And now Reddit for Lemmy. That’s 35 years right there.

    The masses eventually arrive and then the space becomes a soulless corporate shell of it’s former self.

    Will be interesting to see how the fediverse fares.