• megopie@beehaw.org
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    4 days ago

    you know what’s funny to me, that when large organizations manipulate the apparent consensus on Reddit about a topic, that’s “clever marketing” and “innovative campaign techniques”.

    When a bunch of random people collectively organize to do it suddenly it’s a “dangerous”

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    8 days ago

    DDG only recommending older Reddit answers as a result of the Google deal may be a net positive for it then.

    • 🦊 OneRedFox 🦊@beehaw.org
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      8 days ago

      Occasionally when I’m searching for something, I’ll check out some Reddit links and honestly it’s a crapshoot as to whether half of the comments have been deleted or not. Useful search results are getting to be a pain to come by.

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        8 days ago

        It is rough isn’t it? It used to be that you’d get the forum style answer, now most of the people who wrote those deleted their accounts.

        Pre-2019 searches that resulted in deleted comments happened, but rarely. Post Exodus it is now very flippant on the results you’ll get.