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There's More to the Reddit Meltdown Than Meets the Eye (attilavago.medium.com)

submitted 1 year ago by curt@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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This article is on Medium, which has a paywall. I'm a member, but not logged in. I was able to read it so it may depend on how many times you've read Medium articles.

One point he made that I found interesting was:

So, in light of all of this, should Reddit even exist? Is there really a point to a web forum in 2023? Aren’t we past all that?

He thinks we are. I never thought about it before. Maybe in the case of some Reddit subreddits and other forums, but I don't think so in general. I've got a lot great information from forums.

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[–] Hedup@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

The only problem is the " reddit" google search. If these discussions start to be on lemmy and we append lemmy instead of reddit, in time there's gonna be tons of malicious instances that fill the site with ads and generate content with AI just to get to that google 1st page.

[–] TheDeadGuy@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How is that different than what's currently on reddit? Unless you are talking about 5 years ago, modern reddit is filled with manipulated conversations

[–] ndr@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s not. That’s their point.

[–] TheDeadGuy@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh, I misunderstood then. It sounded to me like they were saying lemmy was more vulnerable

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