Thousands of subreddits chose to go dark in an ongoing protest over the company's plan to start charging certain third-party developers to access the site’s data.
Wow. Front page of huffpost.com right now. Interesting…
Traditional media outlets are not exactly in the friendliest of terms with social media platforms in the realm of disputing ad revenue.
Ehh. I don’t think that this is some elaborate strategic move coordinated from on-high at media companies in the space of a day or two. It’s just a big, high-profile event to write a story about.
I agree it’s a big high profile event to write a story about.
But it wouldn’t be put upfront covers with that level of screen real estate if each of the individual publications didn’t have vested interests on it. Maybe with a few exceptions.
Not necessarily coordinated, but like a discoordinated lynch mob, just… Not holding back?
Traditional media outlets are not exactly in the friendliest of terms with social media platforms in the realm of disputing ad revenue.
That’s an institutional attack from content producers against a platform. In the limit publishers could host their own lemmy instances.
Interesting and rare thing to see…
Ehh. I don’t think that this is some elaborate strategic move coordinated from on-high at media companies in the space of a day or two. It’s just a big, high-profile event to write a story about.
I agree it’s a big high profile event to write a story about.
But it wouldn’t be put upfront covers with that level of screen real estate if each of the individual publications didn’t have vested interests on it. Maybe with a few exceptions.
Not necessarily coordinated, but like a discoordinated lynch mob, just… Not holding back?