Technology

If you think about it:

1. Reddit gives Google access to everything so that Google can train their AI
2. Google is now showing AI generated snippets on every search page and is pushing its own AI chatbot everywhere
3. Users are getting the answer they want from those AI generated answers Google generated from Reddit comments
4. Traffic to Reddit is collapsing

In the meantime, spez totally trashed his site, destroyed valuable communities and pushed away the mods that keep the place clean. Really, really great business strategy there.

Just Google. Not killing mobile apps, not packing more ads than posts, packing more bots than users....

Uhm, didn't they block every crawler except Googles?

Orrrrrrrr, and hear me out......you decided to do AI banning, where bots ban humans, with no human oversight, and you assume that somehow the humans will flock to this platform that becomes increasingly hostile towards it's users.

Then you sit back and wonder why you're not growing.

Humans like staying where they're appriciated. You're showing that you appriciate money over humans. Now you blame google. I'm not one usually to root for google, but I hope they pimp slap spez across his stupid little face.

Huffman: "Is it our shitty policies towards users, AI developers, and moderators that caused our growth to show down? No it must be Google! Even though they are ranking us higher than we deserve in their search results!"

First off all, what an idiot. Second, you made the deal with them, ya fucking idiot!

Third, I've noticed when I go to reduce from a search engine result, the UI is horrible (because I'm not logged in). Like, significantly worse than it used to be several years ago when I've wasn't logged in.

"It's everyone except me at fault!" - Steve Huffman

Honestly such a poor excuse given literally every other google search yields reddit as a top result.

Huffman and Co. are apparently oblivious to the fact that Reddit is and has always been a niche "social media" platform. They're more closely related to forums than mainstream social media.

I'm just making wild assertions here but somehow I think that the thing I liked about Reddit is also the thing the average TikTok/Insta/Snapchat/Facebook user does not like. That being that Reddit is mostly text based and requires lots of reading and writing (if you want to interact on any meaningful way). The only other thing they offer is meme scrolling and that can be done pretty much anywhere.

Adding any substantial user growth would require basically abandoning their entire format and would have a minimal chance of success at best.

This is just attention grabbing language for something that really isn’t even a problem for Reddit. The longer recent trend of stunted growth could be cause for concern, but the actual numbers are something like they got 101.6 million unique visitors instead of their projected 103.4. That’s nothing. They’re talking like they’re in free fall. It could be the start of a trend that could be bad for a public company, but realistically, what we’re all hoping to see isnt what this article is actually telling us. Unfortunately.

I think we are the primary alternative platform. We really need to improve ui/ux if we wanna keep tightening those screws. And for fucks sake can we get fediversal accounts already. We had 1 job (inter operability) and we failed with the most important part of that.

I see reddit links in my searches. Sure as heck don't click on them.

Maybe instead of blaming Google, Reddit should stop pandering to Nazis and condoning zionists committing genocide.

Lol, what, reddit is everywhere on google. It is me who clicks anywhere else though.

Reddit: Let's act like trash, basically be the reason Trump became president in the first place (in 2016) by letting his toxic subreddit take over /r/all (seriously, the entire /r/all was filled with that one goddamn subreddit full of lies and bullshit), and allow mods to make bots that silence actual discussion on subreddits by silencing any dissent, no matter how rational or well-intentioned, as well as disallow anyone who is new and has no karma to post, thus making any new user unable to post, period.

Fuck reddit. Fuck reddit up its garbage pile of trash ass.

There are better decentralized alternatives to this site that aren't controlled by corporate interests that function almost identically to this site.

If we post about it then we get banned tho.

I think i can postt this:

https://youtu.be/TrNE2fSCeFo