I wonder how long until Google delists them in search results.
I wonder how long until reddit allows search engine origin to bypass the community locked. my guess is very soon
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because when you visit a search result you get a page saying the page is private instead of content.
But are they serving a 410 (or other eeror code?) ? Looks like no to me. The algo may not respond as fast
Google knows if you follow a search result, then quickly go back to the search page.
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#33I’m just annoyed the local community group I primarily use Reddit for is dark. I don’t see why this helps anyone. Reddit is a private company, go someplace else. I think 99% of users don’t care, or don’t care enough to do anything substantial. Just move on.
Reddit is a private company that runs on the donated labor of thousands of people doing moderation and policing. 99% of users rely on that labor. And it isn't a given some other forums will rise to the same level. This dumb trope of "economics will ensure an equivalent product will appear" is a laissez faire fantasy.
I moved from Twitter to BlueSky and am much happier. Mastodon wasn’t for me. When I log into Twitter now it’s just to see how bad it’s gotten and I log out.
I’m sure it will be similar for Reddit - no clear “winner” at first, but the start of a gradual and irreversible decline for the incumbent.
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I don’t think that’s interesting. I regret reading it and wish you hadn't shared it Reddit will have moderators and will provide them more tools
The theory being that it will revert to more manual, hands on moderation, rather than automated and more sweeping (eg. instantly banning people for simply posting in an unrelated but disfavored sub).
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#35Of course, the two day blackout will not have huge revenue impact, but two week one will. And if it goes on beyond that, those who will have the most to lose will blink (i.e. Spez and investors)
If Spez doesn't blink, the investors will make him.
I don't think he's' going to win this one without making concession.
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#36Usual bait and switch from Reddit. Pretty much all investor funded companies follow this path sooner or later. Lock the platform, squeeze the profit. Sad, but not much can be done about it.
Enshittification. https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/
As if on cue, I couldn't read past the first paragraph because of two different popups trying to get me to subscribe.
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#37I wonder how long until Google delists them in search results.
Google should buy Reddit instead. Not that different from owning Youtube. And they'd ensure their search results remain full of good, text based content. Lot of people have complained that Google search is worse today without Reddit. If Reddit management kills the communities which produce the text posts it could have a real negative impact on Google. Meanwhile Google's text and video ad network could probably moneti…
This is an extraordinarily good idea and I'm surprised I haven't heard it discussed before.
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#38I don't really understand why it had to be this way. It's so easy to think of other ways this could have been handled. Even just announcing the same change with 6 months of lead time rather than 1 month would have gone over better. Or boil the frog and gradually introduce API restrictions. It's as if the CEO is purposefully being as belligerent as possible to rile people up.
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#40I love that the CEO calls the users voicing their displeasure "noise".
When those users voice opinions on other things, it's called content. When those users voice their opinions against reddit, it's noise.
Hoffman continues to display a fundamental misunderstanding of what Reddit is.
The very people that give your platform its value are revolting against you, and you think it's noise.
What's your product? What do you create? In what way will Reddit thrive only with what you put into it? Where do you think the content you lace your ads between comes from?