Technology

59587 readers

2689 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

857

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

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

319 comments fedilink hide all child comments

‘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

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And people are getting wise to traffic numbers being inflated by bots.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

As a moderator of a fairly large sub over there, I strongly suspect this is happening on a mass scale. According to our stats, we're getting 120k unique views a month (dropped dramtically during the exodus, but has seemingly returned to normal now), but posts rarely get more than 20 upvotes or comments. I know most redditers are lurkers, but even still, that just seems like an oddly high number of views.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Give it time. Eventually the AI with learn to completely mimic human activity. Just not their actual spending habits.