• jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Maybe they shouldn’t have given exclusive access to Google. Bing and all Bing-based engines stopped being able to show Reddit results. So now Google has a monopoly on reddit results. Reddit is just learning the shitty effect of monopolies and it serves them right.

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        They can still show some old results, but reddit only allows Google to crawl reddit. Part of their AI deal.

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    So their CEO is clueless to how his API changes drove people to the fediverse?

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    9 hours ago

    Or, hear me out, they went public and now they are making their product worse as enshittification takes its toll.

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      yeah i mean i know my workarounds like old.reddit and certain third party apps that still work, but most users aren’t doing that. Everytime i accidentally end up on the default reddit experience i am amazed by how messy, ad-riddled, and annoying it is to use. If that was the only way i knew how to use the site, I would simply open the site less.

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      Reddit’s business isn’t a forum, that’s just part of the product extraction process