How Reddit Crushed the Internet's Largest Protest
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How Reddit Crushed the Internet's Largest Protest
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Try Snyk š»: http://snyk.co/lewisThe Reddit Blackout of 2023 will go down in internet history as one of the largest online protests ever. Outraged redditors ...
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I mean, the blackout helped lemmy take off and reach a huge audience that I'm not sure it would have ever had before.
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Spoiler alert. They cheated. They changed their own rules in order to prevent the users from using the service the way they had up til then been told was perfectly okay. And the didn't even really win. User engagement with ads might be up, but the people who contributed to the subreddits are falling still.