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Reddit is now blocking major search engines and AI bots — except the ones that pay
(www.theverge.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2024
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That's a fantasy we all hold here because we don't like Reddit. Reddit doesn't care that nerds have gone and normies are left behind. People keep using the site and throwing money at "super upvotes". They've floated on the stock market and are doing well. The site is nowhere near dying like Digg. Deep, cerebral, meaningful content might have suffered; but hardly anyone cares as long as they get to see recycled memes, making judgemental comments on other people's relationships, porn and politics. Their main content is lowest common denominator shit, and it always has been. Facebook is far more shitty and is still going strong. I'm sure Reddit will be fine without us and with their ongoing enshitification, no matter how much we fantasise about their demise.
https://imgur.com/a/aLhmJSE.jpg
People don't realize how much of reddit content is made by bot farms and advertising agencies, propaganda outlets with bots to spare. Which is what's keeping the normies entertained, not the nerds, not the niche community of a few thousand people.
People like the one you're replying to always are so sure their echo chamber is right when reality is like complete opposite. Most people on reddit are lurkers and not terminally online people. They just want to scroll and fucking waste time. Community, subs and their mods or rules be damned.
They don't care if the cat videos are on a banana sub. they'll happily upvote and scroll away while the terminally online will start complaining why the post is not fit, a repost, or against the rules for 100s of time. And as always, once they leave, they think it is dead.
I don't know why but I can't stop laughing at this