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‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit (www.theguardian.com)
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‘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

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[–] modifier@lemmy.ca 93 points 11 months ago (1 children)

In response to such critiques, Reddit spokesperson Rathschmidt said he did not “know of an industry benchmark for scoring content quality”

Never before has the sheer inevitability of enshittification been so aptly summarized.

[–] zbyte64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What's the saying? "You can't control what you can't measure."

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

And the concurrent point : "‘If we stopped testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any.’

If you dont measure your failure, no one can prove you failed. Its a win win.