There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

Tramort ,

Seems anticompetitive

todd_bonzalez ,

Oh good, I can’t view most reddit threads without an account anymore, so it’ll be nice to see those results go away.

cupcakezealot ,
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i like how the only reason i’d use reddit is to search “site:reddit.com/r/thesimpsons <random simpsons quote>” to see what the simpsons reddit says about the episode.

mrvictory1 ,

I searched for a specific post: No result from DDG, correct result from google. I will try again in a day. duckduckgo.com/?q="advise+for+bringing+my+son+int…www.google.com/search?hl=en&q="advise for bringin…

hotpot8toe OP ,

There are easier ways to check. Here is how i did ithttps://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7838cbfa-c251-4351-90c3-5afb9fe43749.png (no way there hasn’t been a trump reddit post in a week)

thesmokingman ,

I have not actually been able to use any Reddit results for awhile. It might be that I force old[.]reddit[.]com and Reddit has finally cracked down on that?

Freefall ,

Oh cool! My searching won’t be spammed with Reddit now!

5oap10116 ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/adcb0b2d-0d83-4881-aa82-fa74937e0ec0.png

Kowowow ,

They should include reddit in the list of search engines that don’t work well with reddit

cmrn ,

Every time I click a Reddit link now it’s just “download the app to verify your age” regardless of what it is

Wolf314159 ,

I feel your pain.

I edit the URL to remove the first part of the URL and replace it with “old.reddit.com”. That still seems to work, last I checked, but I fully expect it to be killed any day now.

PraiseTheSoup ,

There’s a firefox extension “old reddit redirect” that’ll do this for you. Been using it for years. But yeah any day now I expect old reddit to be offline.

AFC1886VCC ,

Fuck Reddit

vxx ,

Another nail.

Fedizen ,

Reddit really fucked themselves. Not as much as Elon fucked twitter but super close.

Also pretty sure DDG uses Bing

daniskarma ,

To be fair, Reddit is no longer that good of a source for answers in the later years.

Quality drop in comments is insane. Sometimes it looks like Quora.

Kecessa ,

I was looking for Bluetooth speakers recommendations and it’s the first time I really noticed “generic bot replies” like “I’ve got this great product to recommend, not only is it good but it offers great sound quality as well! The product is [link to Amazon page]”

Gotta start searching using “before:” to get quality results…

5oap10116 ,

Am I bbbrrrregnant?

BeigeAgenda ,
@BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca avatar

If we consider all possible outcomes on a galaxy scale, then No.

villainy ,

Also my collection of hobbies seems to match up well with the people who nuked their post history after the API-ocalypse. Even when I get good search results I click through and… so many deleted comments…

Mnemnosyne ,

It irritates me that so many forums and media sites allow you to edit your posts at will. There’s one site I go to that I like very much - it has a 5 minute edit window, and after that, your post can no longer be edited. You can’t change what you said, pretend you never said things, etc, once you say something it remains. It would be nice if more sites were like that. Or at least, if you edit/delete something, for there to be an option to check the history to see what it used to be, so if you try to delete some comment you made people can still check it. Whether it’s informational, or it’s because you’re trying to hide something you said that you realize was actually super shitty and people are getting angry at you for it, I prefer things to stick.

werefreeatlast ,

Lemmy Will be king soon…is there a Lemmy search engine?

dullbananas ,
@dullbananas@lemmy.ca avatar

Poople

JackbyDev ,

If you use Bing, DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, Qwant or any other alternative search engine that doesn’t rely on Google’s indexing and search Reddit by using “site:reddit.com,” you will not see any results from the last week.

That’s absolutely insane… Reddit truly is making things awful. The “just add reddit” or “just add site:reddit.com” has been trash for a while because they bombard you with the “pwease use the app” and not showing more than like three comments at a time. It’s useless.

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

Reddit truly is making things awful.

They’re no longer interested in driving traffic to the site, is my guess. They’re far more interested in devising new ways to extract rents from the existing participant base. So rather than pay Google to prioritize their site, or incentivize Google to link to their site with internal content hygenie techniques, now they’re getting paid by Google to exclusively serve up content.

It’s useless.

The sheer volume of junk content, the amount of content that just shows up as deleted or archived, and the rate at which I’m served “Reddit” as a source of data when there’s no conceivable reason why it should be near the top of my search list is very frustrating.

5oap10116 ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/941a7b15-cf66-407a-b8a6-d0c0f6b98f94.png

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