{"id":12773,"date":"2023-12-30T15:37:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T14:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/30\/front-page-of-the-internet-how-social-medias-biggest-user-protest-rocked-reddit\/"},"modified":"2023-12-30T15:37:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T14:37:23","slug":"front-page-of-the-internet-how-social-medias-biggest-user-protest-rocked-reddit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/30\/front-page-of-the-internet-how-social-medias-biggest-user-protest-rocked-reddit\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Front page of the internet\u2019: how social media\u2019s biggest user protest rocked Reddit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mass user protest six months ago over technical tweaks had big downstream effects, and now the social media site is changed for ever<\/p>\n<p>In June, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/jun\/23\/the-guardian-view-on-the-reddit-rebellion-a-historic-standoff\">thousands of Reddit communities plunged into darkness<\/a> \u2013 making their pages inaccessible to the public in a mass protest of corporate policy changes. Users of a social network lambasting it is nothing new; but Reddit\u2019s moderators rebelled on a scale never seen before. Six months later, users and researchers say reforms sparked by the movement are still rippling through the social network, which bills itself as the \u201cfront page of the internet\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The changes are a mixed bag, they say. The quality of the posts on the forum site has changed, some say, but the social network\u2019s corporate parent appears more attentive, making changes long requested by users and moderators alike. The conflict with the company left Reddit\u2019s denizens angry and skeptical, but many say they\u2019re sticking around to see how things go with Reddit\u2019s new normal.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/dec\/30\/reddit-moderator-protest-communities-social-media\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/cd121dbdcf6e4eb5e251b5de6ce3ab546a524ad4\/507_280_2205_1323\/master\/2205.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b2d29b3d672be961c3f7cecf495d9ca5\" title=\"\u2018Front page of the internet\u2019: how social media\u2019s biggest user protest rocked Reddit\" \/>A mass user protest six months ago over technical tweaks had big downstream effects, and now the social media site is changed for ever<br \/>\nIn June, thousands of Reddit communities plunged into darkness \u2013 making their pages inaccessible to the public in a mass protest of corporate policy changes. Users of a social network lambasting it is nothing new; but Reddit\u2019s moderators rebelled on a scale never seen before. Six months later, users and researchers say reforms sparked by the movement are still rippling through the social network, which bills itself as the \u201cfront page of the internet\u201d.<br \/>\nThe changes are a mixed bag, they say. The quality of the posts on the forum site has changed, some say, but the social network\u2019s corporate parent appears more attentive, making changes long requested by users and moderators alike. The conflict with the company left Reddit\u2019s denizens angry and skeptical, but many say they\u2019re sticking around to see how things go with Reddit\u2019s new normal. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mass user protest six months ago over technical tweaks had big downstream effects, and now the social media site is changed for ever In June, thousands of Reddit communities plunged into darkness \u2013 making their pages inaccessible to the public in a mass protest of corporate policy changes. Users of a social network lambasting &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/30\/front-page-of-the-internet-how-social-medias-biggest-user-protest-rocked-reddit\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Front page of the internet\u2019: how social media\u2019s biggest user protest rocked Reddit<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12773"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}