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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Zorque@kbin.social 4 weeks agoThey had a site redesign to garner more monetization.
Wrench@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Sizzler@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
They also had power users who dominated post and drove the control of conversation. (MrBabyMan?)