this comment is aimed at those future “just passing through” visitors, who are still on the fence with regards to the fediverse.

any internet power user will know, and be able to tell you that the internet feels wrong as of late. everything that you try to use is slightly broken for some reason. why is it becoming harder to use basic services that we took for granted 5 years ago?

unfortunately, the internet is changing once again, and it’s time to pick a side.

you can side with big corpo, stay in their walled ecosystems, and embrace enshittification.

or, you can side with the fediverse, break out of your silo, and take control of your own means of content participation.

the choice is yours.

if you like following concepts or “things” (reddit-style), then try here: https://join-lemmy.org/

or, if you prefer following individuals or “trends” (twitter-style), then try here: https://joinmastodon.org/

They must’ve noticed an uptick in Google traffic. I’ve stopped using reddit for fun and only as a means to find solutions through search engine.

Starting to wish yahoo answers would come back.

“The more you tighten your grasp, the more systems will slip through your fingers.”

That search is the only reason a lot of people end up on reddit. This won’t end well for reddit.

Uhhhhh…who thought that was going to be a bright idea? Google is probably the single biggest traffic draw for Reddit.

I really, really hope this happens.

At first I thought this was just a bluff… Then I remembered “right! It’s 2023! Our economic structures are imploding!”

But seriously, this would be great. At best, Google starts indexing cached versions and they get into a slugging match with Reddit as they both slide down the cliff, at worst Google and Reddit both become useless for all us technical folks, and after the immediate damage to knowledge, it’ll become fragmented and open the door to new players still at the “don’t be evil” phase of the inevitable path to “become an amoral orphan crushing machine”.

Stack overflow and Reddit suck… But not intrinsically.

Especially since generative AI can spin out the basics of a site like that, making it an easy and better structured place for general reference, and draw in the expert discussion that leads to building very specific knowledge bases (and definitely not scrape that info from existing sites and rephrase everything to obscure the fact it’s stolen info)

But the one thing we know for sure… Threatening Google to make a deal with all AI companies is “let’s make everyone mistrust Twitter until we reach a trust underflow and everyone trusts it as a one stop financial platform + paid advertising posing as microblogging social media” levels of “gradeschoolers could have told you that makes no sense”

Man, they are going the way of Twitter. Jeez.

do Reddit admins think they have any kind of search function without using Google and site:reddit.com?

I’m at a loss for words. Surely, YouTube trying to Adwall would be the stupidest thing in social media history. Surely, Musk changing Twitter’s name would be the stupidest thing. No, Steve Huffman has somehow managed to surpass the old masters. “We can survive without people being able to find our website VIA SEARCH RESULTS”! YOU. STUPID. MOTHERFUCKER.