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[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 547 points 1 year ago

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

[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 92 points 1 year ago

Did Elon secretly buy Reddit?

[-] hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works 102 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Funny thing, spez expressed in interviews that he liked Leon's philosophy behind a lot of decision over Twitter.

So there's a lot of truth to that

Edit: I'm gonna tear my autocorrect a new one. It's "Elon Musk" and I hope that's clear.

[-] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

Noel Musk: "HERP DERP I'M AN OXYMORON!"

Greedy Pigboy: "WE OXYMORONS STAND TOGETHER! please notice me senpai Enol Musk..."

Yep. That’s when I quit reddit

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Probably working towards his own No Money Miracle.

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

That's literally been life for me for so long when I'm looking up quite a bit of different things. "Blah blah reddit"

[-] gullible@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago

They seem to intend to make the content on Reddit more disposable, which is a feat unto itself. Technical forum usage will precipitously drop if no one can find it. Or they just endlessly repost it? What an odd decision.

[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

If they cut Google, I will literally never go to Reddit again. I probably hit a couple pages a week from Google search, and that's it, but that will be zero pages if they are truly this dumb.

[-] PixxlMan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Spez is going full Musk. It's actually insane. Like... Holy shit.

I'm praying for Reddit's downfall here, because if companies are able to get away with this shit the internet is going to get oh so much worse in the near future.

[-] CoderKat@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

But at the same time, it sucks. I still use Reddit for episode discussions of shows I watch (which don't exist here on Lemmy, especially for older shows). I don't want those to go away without some replacement. Even if Lemmy did suddenly start getting lots of active episode discussions, it's not really possible to backfill them for older shows and the site is still too small and hard to index, it seems.

Incidentally, google is the only way I access those, since I no longer browse Reddit normally.

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