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“The more you tighten your grasp, the more systems will slip through your fingers.”
Ah, the tao of internet
This feels like a fairly desperate attempt to get Google to pay them something
Ding ding ding ding!! It’s telling that this announcement came out after it was disclosed that Google pays Apple 18-20 BILLION A YEAR to be the default search engine on IOS. Spez is trying to tap into that.
I don’t wanna be a buzzkill, but if the FTC/DOJ kill the Apple/Google deal that’s going to impact Mozilla too, which really needs the money from Google as well.
Boy oh boy, think about how valuable being the default on iPhones must be if Google is willing to pay that much money.
That’s a lot of profit off selling people’s data.
He’s a greedy little shit who’d rather run the entire platform into the ground for a buck than do anything useful with his life.
He could’ve done great things. He could’ve gone down in history shoulder to shoulder with some of the big guys, instead, he’s been a snivelling backstabbing little fungus from day 1.
Don’t tempt us with a good time
Bold move cotton
I could understand if Reddit’s own search was somewhat competent, but it remains terrible.
Lemmy’s search is far more flexible, it’s just buggy/broken right now – at least for me.
Hope they crash and burn
Can you image how impossible it will be to search reddit WITHOUT using search engines?
The reddit search functions a joke. Everything about it frustrates me.
After 7 years I still have no idea how to search my own inbox for posts that I know I have - but no idea when or where. If Google can’t help me find them - they might as well not exist.
If reddit wants to die so badly - this is the way to do it!
Ummm. What’s lemmy position on this? I havn’t looked to hard at sync for lemmy opinions (indeed, I only have a few dozen posts / inbox messages) but If it’s the same as it was for reddit. It’s also not great.
After 7 years I still have no idea how to search my own inbox for posts that I know I have - but no idea when or where. If Google can’t help me find them - they might as well not exist.
Turn on Never Ending Reddit, click in the middle mouse and scroll down, go take a shit, then come back and use ctrl+F
I’m about to get a hemorrhoid.
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No you can’t. But hey if you wanna make my search results good again, you do you.
Google also has a robots.txt rule to block Bard why not use that? I use it.
the company may block Google and Bing’s search crawlers, which means *new Reddit posts wouldn’t show up in search results
If something’s indexed, it’s indexed. If something new pops up and the crawler is blocked, then yeah, not indexed.
The vast majority of shit of relevant reddit content showing up in my ddg/google searches, has been at least a year old. And certainly nothing since 31 Jun.
So in my use case, I won’t notice a goddamn difference. What a bunch of maroons.
This is a terrible moment for the internet. When people look for hobby information the loss of information accessibility it might be painful, but not critical. But there is tons of information on rare diseases, drugs and supplements which can be absolutely vital for the tiny minority which is affected by rare genetic conditions.
So Reddit would go from a social open hub, the “front page of the Internet”, to a walled garden? Ridiculous.
Look they’ve already cut off free API access. Here’s some other ideas from the Muskrat playbook:
Maybe change the name to P.com
Change the logo to ₱ (surely the Mexicans won’t mind that you’re using the Peso symbol).
Hmm, why not also charge money to get a blue checkmark by your Reddit username to be a verified Redditor? or maybe call them P-ers?
Oh, how about charging new users $1 to use your platform?
The peso symbol is $, and it was it before it ever was the dollar symbol.
Maybe it’s somebody else’s peso?
Apparently Philippines, introduced when they were an American colony and USA thought that the $ sign was to be only theirs and Spain’s.
More like charge money to be called a verified user without actually being verified.
Yet another stupid idea from Reddit.
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