Reddit's search traffic "was down meaningfully" last quarter.
  • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    14 days ago

    “During October, we have seen that search traffic has dropped by more than 1 million referrals on average per week. If this rate of decline continues, current trends would suggest that total DAUqs [or daily active unique users] could fall in Q4, by a low-double-digit percentage from our current base of 130 million DAUqs,” Huffman wrote.

    Weird that not allowing people to use your site would lower the number of people using your site.

    • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      14 days ago

      And permanently banning anyone that says anything remotely like what the advertisers don’t like.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        14 days ago

        and those shadowbans has mostly forced people to just lurk. the serial ban evaders just adapt and make hordes of accounts as normal, although im hearing they are having a difficult time doing so.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      14 days ago

      also trying to not saying the drop is actually openAI not referencing the site as much anymore because banning people that were producing content isnt as good anymore. plus only going after the lowest hanging fruit of bots/spammers.

        • Anti_Iridium@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          13 days ago

          I am trying to stop answering questions that I think are quickly searchable with “you have the entire world’s knowledge in your pocket”. It’s been a long time since trustworthy information has been easy to find on the internet.

        • OberonSwanson@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          13 days ago

          It’s like repeatedly hitting your genitalia with a wooden mallet and acting smug about it, if someone is asking for assistance.

        • Anti_Iridium@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          14 days ago

          It’s ok. The AI companies will scrape it and might spit it out for you.

          Correction bolded, but it was sad that was my first thought too

    • runner_g@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      14 days ago

      “People aren’t coming to our website so we are going to make it harder for people to come to our website.” - The dumbest motherfucker alive (and he’s competing with Trump and Altman)

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        14 days ago

        “by forcing people to come to our site by logging in, but making it hard for people to maintain thier prescence here.”

  • pHr34kY@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    14 days ago

    There’s only one social media site that’s still the same as it was a decade ago. The only problem is that it was never good.

      • FinishingDutch@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        14 days ago

        How has it changed? I’m genuinely not familiar with it. I know of the spicy reputation it once had, but I rarely see it mentioned anymore these days. I assume censorship or something like it found its way there?

        • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          14 days ago

          User posts are down, bot posts are up. Go to anything political or US, Israel or Iran news and all you will see are hundreds of homo erotic AI images of Trump posted by bots

          • FinishingDutch@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            13 days ago

            Ugh, that does sound terrible. I liked Reddit reasonably well before 2016 turned everything and anything into politics. And then covid and the whole Ukraine situation turned everything to shit even further.

            I really miss the 2000 internet when it was just nerd discussions and the occasional funny gif.

      • Pyon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        14 days ago

        Just because the people have changed doesn’t mean the platform has changed

        • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          13 days ago

          Nah it changed, if you were there early on you know the vibe started changing by 07 and by 10 it was kinda what it is now. I’m pretty sure I fully left in 2011.

          While yea alot was user base ageing out it was also leadership, rules, posting numbers, OC reduction, government actions.

  • tyo_ukko@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    13 days ago

    I thought this was already in place since September or so (maybe it’s explained in the article somewhere, I only skimmed it through - doesn’t really matter tho).

    It was fun to see discussion on this on HN, where so many commenters shared the view of leaving reddit for good after lurking became impossible. As one of those people, can’t wait for that shithole to burn to the ground. Or even better, become just a steaming pile of botfest.

    • boudica@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      13 days ago

      Yeah it’s been in place for some time. For those increasingly rare moments when a search lands on reddit, uBlock’s annoyances filter still blocks the login popup.

  • TheObviousSolution@lemmy.caEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Great, it’s removing itself from a lot of free publicity it was getting from search results and basically conceding them to the AIs spez was always using as a strawman.

    Spez has all but basically admitted that reddit is a targeted experience now and that the only posts you will see are ads, echo chambers, and rage baits. It has little to do with its origins now.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      14 days ago

      reddits trying to re-force a logged in one again. ironically they wanted people to read-only. but that just made people produce less content for google and open ai to scrape.

      • jj4211@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        13 days ago

        It has affected mine. Sometimes a Google result suggested the only answer was in a reddit thread, and I would click to at least see. Now I get a 'log in" prompt and decide I didn’t need that information after all.