‘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

  • synae[he/him]@lemmy.sdf.org
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    10 months ago

    A third party website analytics company probably couldn’t track the traffic of the users who left in the first place- the whole ordeal was about unofficial apps and API usage.

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      10 months ago

      That’s actually a great point. If everyone using the apps bailed it would be a huge number decline that wouldn’t register as even a blip on similarweb so it’s a terrible metric.