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A sentence from the SEC report on Reddit: "Redditors are unable to locate content that is interesting, useful, relevant, reliable, high-quality, or trustworthy to them, or otherwise find content available on our platform offensive, inappropriate, hostile, or otherwise objectionable;" Even Reddit Founders know/accept that their content is primarily personal experience and lacks expertise and trustworthiness. While search engines value both principles, they increase their rankings tremendously. Note: I suggest you observe Reddit's internal search changes in the coming months since they can access Google's internal models. #seo #reddit

How to Report a Subreddit on Reddit Desktop and Mobile Alright, when it comes to platforms like Reddit that host a diverse variety of communities, talks & discussions never seem to take a break. And hence, factors such as order and respect become a priority. However, you might find a subreddit that goes too far and violates the rules & guidelines set by the platform. In such cases, you have the option to report and get the subreddit or users who abuse banned from Reddit. We will show you how to do the same, let’s get started.

How to Report a Subreddit on Reddit Desktop and Mobile Alright, when it comes to platforms like Reddit that host a diverse variety of communities, talks & discussions never seem to take a break. And hence, factors such as order and respect become a priority. However, you might find a subreddit that goes too far and violates the rules & guidelines set by the platform. In such cases, you have the option to report and get the subreddit or users who abuse banned from Reddit. We will show you how to do the same, let’s get started. https://lnkd.in/e_xZedx8

Greed may be good. But letting it make you stupid is not. CAT (Content for AI Training), the fool’s gold rush de jure, has speared Reddit in its greedy heart. https://lnkd.in/gZDq_hsC When your business lives in an ecosystem requiring massive volunteer participation it is best to consider where your value originates that keeps your organization alive, thriving, and ultimately adapting. Reddit’s value does not arise from reselling user/customer created content. Regardless of what the most evil lawyers of our time say (IP lawyers), that attitude will kill the golden goose, not exploit it. Reddit’s value does originate from being the infrastructure where massive volunteer and user communities socialize. Reddit’s value is not derived from obtuse user agreements written with such careless self-interest that Reddit may abuse critical elements of its own ecosystem with impunity. Reddit cannot resell or lay privileged monetized claim on user provided content. It cannot afford to abuse critically supporting open source and voluntary elements of its environment. UA be damned, because that is the surest way to stop Reddit from thriving and surviving. Being anti-social when your core business rests on being the place to socialize is outright suicide. Facebook which plays fast and loose with its users could not do this either. For good reason Facebook intentionally protects its primary value of reselling intimate private details to third party message manipulators from being in the lime light. Whatever you do, never, ever poison your primary value delivered that keeps you in the game. Guess they needed a better Enterprise Business Architecture team which understands the primacy of self-sustaining value generation above all else. Someday soon this will be a classic business study, except in MBA schools where they mock the very notion of value because it does not have units measured in currency. MBA thinking of value limited to fungible value in the form of currency has killed many an enterprise while they deny that the much more important notion of existentential value even exits.

What is going on over at Reddit, Inc.? 🤔 It's like the 'front page to the internet' has apparently learned nothing from the relatively recent D&D OGL debacle! 😮 For those that don't know: Reddit has been severely impacted this past week, with 7.2k of the 7.8k subreddits being set to [Private], meaning they are no longer accessible by millions of non-members (eg the VAST majority of those browsing the site). This has been done in protest at Reddit's recently revealed plans to charge significant amounts (in some cases literally millions of dollars) for access to their API's - a rate quoted as being nearly one hundred times more than charged by other companies for similar API access (eg Imgur) As you can imagine, for a site created, run and moderated almost entirely by the users, this has been less than well received #WhoKnew I understand the desire to be a "self-sustaining business", and the challenges involved with managing content around the recent AI 'uprising', but come on! Predatory and exploitative pricing is only going to alienate the community, and piss off everyone who made the site what it is today - and good luck sustaining anything at all if all the users and developers (and moderators!) have had enough, and simply moved elsewhere! 😰 https://lnkd.in/gM37kK6D

Another great example of Cory Doctorow's 'enshitification' process here at Reddit, who are putting up their charges and everyone is leaving. Here is the definition of the enshitification process: "Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die". Here is his article describing enshitification. https://lnkd.in/e3ixfxbm Here is a good summary of where it applies from John Naughton in the Guardian https://lnkd.in/eU6Ujck2 Here is my article on why some buzzwords are plain irritating, and some are works of genius. Enshitification fits in the genius category. https://lnkd.in/eN9-TAyg https://lnkd.in/eAnqr-r8

Google is facing a major problem with Reddit. In June 2022, an article was published in the Atlantic titled "The Open Secret of Google Search". The article explained that many users were appending "Reddit" to their Google searches in order to find direct information from others. This was because they were finding that the Google results were unhelpful. Google responded to this by giving Reddit a boost in the search results. However, this has led to a number of problems. First, Reddit is a place where anonymous individuals post comments to questions in order to gain upvotes. This means that the information on Reddit is not always accurate or reliable. Second, Reddit users sometimes spout nonsense for upvotes, to be funny, or just to be deceptive. This has led to a situation where Google is now serving up Reddit threads in the search results that contain recommendations for committing lewd acts, doing drugs, and other activities that Google is not a fan of. Google has a major Reddit problem. It needs to find a way to balance the need to provide accurate and reliable information with the need to give users what they want #googlealgorithm #googleupdates #seoexpert

Interesting thread going on over there on X.. Mark Williams-Cook pointed out reddit completely dominating a SERP that didn't quite make sense. I found an example myself and Google responded talking about search intent. In short, I think Google's systems are having an very hard time differentiating between users typing in reddit because they want results on reddit, or because they want information ABOUT reddit. Examples: - When did google add reddit filter? - Spam on reddit - What is reddit useful for? - Funny reddit usernames Ask yourselves for these searches, would the user want to see a result on reddit.com or another reputable source? Figuring out search intent is nothing new, and this happens all the time for queries with vague intent, but with the recent Google updates skyrocketing reddit's visibility, it seems very off-balance with that particular site. https://lnkd.in/ghjsYy9M

Reddit suffers a major outage after thousands of subreddits temporarily shut down It's been quite a day for Reddit. Thousands of communities have temporarily closed shop to protest changes the company is making to its API, which is impacting several third-party apps. On top of that, the platform suffered a "major outage" across its desktop and mobile websites, as well as the mobile apps. "We're aware of problems loading content and are working to resolve the issues as quickly as possible," read a message on the Reddit status page as of 10:58AM ET. By 11:30AM, the site was loading again. "A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and we’ve been working on resolving the anticipated issue," Reddit told Engadget in a statement. A bot was tracking all of the subreddits that were going private as part of the protests. As you might expect, the bot was out of commission while Reddit was down, but it's up and running again.Subscribe to the Engadget Deals NewsletterGreat deals on consumer electronics delivered straight to your inbox, curated by Engadget’s editorial team. See latestPlease enter a valid email addressPlease select a newsletterBy subscribing, you are agreeing to Engadget's Terms and Privacy Policy. Reddit said in April...