Comment on Is lemmy now what reddit used to be 10+ years ago?

• Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They forced a UI change that everyone hated, so everyone fled to reddit, thus crowning Steve Huffman, a dirty little piss boy.

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• Zorque@kbin.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They had a site redesign to garner more monetization.

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  • Sizzler@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They also had power users who dominated post and drove the control of conversation. (MrBabyMan?)

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  • Wrench@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The redesign elevated paid advertisers to the front page, masquerading as real articles.

    Suddenly 1/4th of the top content was fluff articles not very subtly advertising shit

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