The Reddit blackout has left Google barren and full of holes
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Re: The Reddit blackout has left Google barren and full of holes
#2I hope this is finally a wakeup call to Google to try to start to prioritize non reddit user content on the internet again. Web forums have been suppressed by their results for ages now and Google's choice to do that has been a big part of what killed the internet.
Re: The Reddit blackout has left Google barren and full of holes
#3The mainstream web seems to be crumpling under the weight of its enshittification.
Re: The Reddit blackout has left Google barren and full of holes
#4I hope this is finally a wakeup call to Google to try to start to prioritize non reddit user content on the internet again. Web forums have been suppressed by their results for ages now and Google's choice to do that has been a big part of what killed the internet.
They didn't suppress web forums, they instead went to prioritize SEO factors that of course SEO spammers maximized to abuse. Of course the Google solution was to prioritize reddit because people were searching for " reddit" due to said SEO spam.
Re: The Reddit blackout has left Google barren and full of holes
#5it's not just google. it's the web.
all of the web's useful information--decades of discussion--is stored in reddit's garage. and they've decided to close the door.
Re: The Reddit blackout has left Google barren and full of holes
#6The mainstream web seems to be crumpling under the weight of its enshittification.
I've been referring to it for years as the corporate web but unfortunately I think these are the same things.
Re: The Reddit blackout has left Google barren and full of holes
#7The mainstream web seems to be crumpling under the weight of its enshittification.
None of it is due to organic interest anymore. Just gamification of attention to try and spread a viral sales pitch.
Paul Graham did some napkin math on Twitter a few months ago highlighting his approach is just try to get ahead of a trending but still not quite super popular idea.
It’s Shark Tank; film the show months in advance, get the viable product for sale before it airs, because you know copycats will be right behind you.
All to preserve a hallucination reality will collapse without a fiat currency game to play.
Re: The Reddit blackout has left Google barren and full of holes
#8I hope this is finally a wakeup call to Google to try to start to prioritize non reddit user content on the internet again. Web forums have been suppressed by their results for ages now and Google's choice to do that has been a big part of what killed the internet.
They didn't suppress web forums, they instead went to prioritize SEO factors that of course SEO spammers maximized to abuse. Of course the Google solution was to prioritize reddit because people were searching for " reddit" due to said SEO spam.
They definitely suppress web forums. There are a few I frequent that are prevalent on bing but nowhere to be seen on Google.
Maybe it's just a difference in phrasing. Promoting clean SEO companies is suppressing web forums.
Re: The Reddit blackout has left Google barren and full of holes
#9My theory is that Google lost the spam war. All the leetcode in the world won't teach someone to build an ML model that can tell whether a website is spam. So Google outsourced the spam detection problem -- they heavily bias their results towards only the most popular sites, who either have human moderators or paid contributors, and those sites do the spam management that Google's automated approach is incapable of.
Re: The Reddit blackout has left Google barren and full of holes
#10The mainstream web seems to be crumpling under the weight of its enshittification.
None of it is due to organic interest anymore. Just gamification of attention to try and spread a viral sales pitch. Paul Graham did some napkin math on Twitter a few months ago highlighting his approach is just try to get ahead of a trending but still not quite super popular idea. It’s Shark Tank; film the show months in advance, get the viable product for sale before it airs, because you know copycats will be right…
> Paul Graham did some napkin math on Twitter a few months ago highlighting his approach is just try to get ahead of a trending but still not quite super popular idea.
got a link?