Tag: reddit

  • Avoiding Angertainment

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    I really like Om’s word angertainment to describe what gets popular on social media. This goes not just for the “big tech” platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or Reddit, but I see it happening on Mastodon as well. Not always merely from those accounts that are engagement farming, but from lots of accounts, some of which…

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  • In the name of AI Google is making its bad search worse

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    According to David Pierce writing in The Verge, you’ll be getting Google’s AI, called Bard, at the top of your search results soon. So now you’ll have an AI summary, then a list of SEO crap articles about the topic. You’ll have to dig even further to find anyone real that has an opinion on…

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  • Ben Brooks – We’ve lost our outrage

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    Ben has an excellent post about Reddit, Twitter, and Meta sucking. We should be taking a stand against assholes in hoodies (used to be suits) exploiting free labour and paid workers like these companies do.

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  • Reddit’s Headlong Dive into Enshitification

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    So Reddit is diving headlong into its enshitification cycle. Cory Doctrow popularized this idea which looks like this: 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…

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