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Re:Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for t... by rozab on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @05:23PM (#36144511)
It's a tragedy, because reddit is the last source of publicly available truth on the internet. I can search for anything with site:reddit.com and see actual human beings' opinions on the matter.

All other truth is locked down in unindexed chats, and all other search results are SEO'd AI written articles shilling referral links.

Re:Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for t... by tpmx on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @05:28PM (#36144582)
truth

Hah. Reddit "truth" is sold and bought at every level for anything popular enough. It's just the illusion of truth. Your site:reddit.com strategy stopped making sense a few years ago.

I will not be sad when reddit dies. Good riddance.

Re:Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for t... by rjh29 on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @05:46PM (#36144779)
It's hilariously easy to spot astroturfing comments and posts on reddit vs. actual opinions. Real posters don't spend years frequenting the same niche subs writing multiple paragraph comments about the same topic. Sure those opinions may be influenced and biased in their own way, but if you read enough of them you can form a pretty good summary.
Re:Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for t... by LapsangGuzzler on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @05:48PM (#36144815)
> for anything popular enough

There is still a ton of value in the more niche Reddit communities. I don’t spend much time in the default subs, but the smaller interest-based subs are great and most of them are too small for the karma farmers to really care about.

Might as well get off the entire internet because all of the popular sites are sold and bought at every level.

Re:Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for t... by tpmx on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @05:50PM (#36144839)
Yeah, your subreddit is safe as long as

a) there is no political aspect to it

and

b) there is no commercial aspect to it

Re:Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for t... by witchesindublin on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @06:57PM (#36145566)
If all you are into is niche reddit communities, then why not have a forum for each community instead?
Re:Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for t... by tomviner on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @06:47PM (#36145456)
What's your alternative?
Re:Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for t... by witchesindublin on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @06:55PM (#36145543)
Reddit has never been good for "truth". It was good for discussions for the period between the end of forum culture and the 2016 presidential election, but since 2016 the website has been increasingly moderated to the point that right-wingers, moderates and most non-US users aren't represented more than a tiny percentage, and it is a mass market appeal website.

Quora was good for more centrist and international comments, but it too has been destroyed by poor development combined with politically motivated moderation.

Re:Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for t... by tpmx on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @06:54PM (#36145530)
Honestly: HN - until it also jumps the shark, at least in this regard.

I've seen an influx of political redditors making their way here to fight e.g. nuclear power (because why not) over the past few years. I can't imagine the professionals working on protecting/pushing brands are very far behind.

Re:Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for t... by kredd on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @05:47PM (#36144806)
All I can say is, don’t take any product advice from Reddit, since it’s fairly mainstream now. Basically every company does astroturfing and marketing in every possible way over there without disclosure. From what I was told, the most common ones are “try x, y, z” and “y” is the advertised product, but since it’s between other two, it looks like an organic comment.

Source: a friend working in marketing, so it’s not really reliable data point.

Re:Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for t... by witchesindublin on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @06:53PM (#36145516)
Reddit stopped being the "truth" when the moderation became too extreme. It created echochamber that were mass market and strongly biased to the far-left, and with that the echochamber also resulted in a very strong bias towards American users - most international subreddits are utterly stupid because they are dominated by American interests.

Quora used to be more centrist. And it had a major boarder appeal globally. But it too has been turning towards a Reddit style moderation within the past few years.