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.
Reddit Blames Google Algorithm Changes For Not Hitting User Growth.
Submitted 2 months ago by Cat@ponder.cat to technology@beehaw.org
https://www.seroundtable.com/reddit-blames-google-algorithm-38903.html
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jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org 2 months ago
“You mean I hitched my wagon to Grabthor The Wagon Destroyer, and he destroyed my wagon?”
Corgana@startrek.website 2 months ago
Bing and all Bing-based engines stopped being able to show Reddit results.
Not accurate, actually!
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
They can still show some old results, but reddit only allows Google to crawl reddit. Part of their AI deal.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
So their CEO is clueless to how his API changes drove people to the fediverse?
jarfil@beehaw.org 2 months ago
After the famous u/spez AMA debacle…?
No, he’s lying.
Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Which one? I feel like there were multiple lol
sculd@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Still don’t understand how a “forum” can be a listed company…
Lodespawn@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Reddit’s business isn’t a forum, that’s just part of the product extraction process
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 2 months ago
HAHA
mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 2 months ago
All th AI bots making posts aren’t helping with growth?
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Keeeeeeek.
troyunrau@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Or, hear me out, they went public and now they are making their product worse as enshittification takes its toll.
Brad@beehaw.org 2 months ago
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theangriestbird@beehaw.org 2 months ago
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.
troyunrau@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I use old.reddit in desktop mode still, on occasion. Today I clicked on a screenshot of a game cause I wanted more detail. I was directed to the new Reddit interface. I right clicked on the image and chose “open image in new tab” and got the new Reddit interface. I tried CTRL-scroll to zoom in the image, and it made the UI elements larger and in the process shrunk the image. I left the site.