This is kind of a huge turning point.
It would mean reddit is discarding the biggest thing that makes it different from all the other algo-driven "engagement"-fueled social platforms.
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It would mean reddit is discarding the biggest thing that makes it different from all the other algo-driven “engagement”-fueled social platforms.
Yup. And it's a bad trade in its case - because even if it leads to more engagement, it makes it too similar to considerably larger platforms, so there's no point staying in Reddit instead of, say, Facebook.
Becoming more like the competition might make sense, if you completely blind yourself to the fact that the customers you do have are the people who don't like the competition.
When I worked for Lowe’s recently, I had the distinct impression the company was trying to evolve to be more similar to Amazon, including:
- Less staff in stores
- Less inventory in stores; logistics to be handled from independent central locations
- More focus on online sales
To me the idea of trying to become more similar to a giant like Amazon is foolish.
It’s like complaining that you never get to step into the ring with Mohammad Ali.
This looks like a way to ruin reddit in the long run, half the relevant content will make it half as attractive to visit.
Well, you can't break something that's already broken.
Linking directly to reddit makes them show up at the top of search results. You should use archive.org or archive.today links.
Feel free to provide the links, I'll update the post
Thanks, just updated the post
Glad I could help.
Well you still have the direct links, so it doesn't make a difference.
You can use the Wayback machine addon to easily get archived links https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wayback-machine_new/.
And a bookmarklet for archive.today:
javascript:void(open('https://archive.today/?run=1&url='+encodeURIComponent(document.location)))
Well you still have the direct links, so it doesn’t make a difference.
It does, buy giving people choices?
It reminds me of people who added Invidious links back in the day, but over time the individious instances would go down, preventing people from knowing which content was initially linked.
https://moz.com/learn/seo/domain-authority https://moz.com/learn/seo/backlinks
The best way to influence the Domain Authority metric is to improve your site’s overall SEO health, with a particular focus on the quality and quantity of external links pointing to your site.
With the way this seems to works, can't we just create thousands of links to let's say Lemmy.world from all the other instances, to boost the LW domain authority? Shouldn't all the crossposts links be taken into account in this calculation?
And if yes, then do 3 links here really make a difference?
It reminds me of people who added Invidious links back in the day, but over time the individious instances would go down, preventing people from knowing which content was initially linked.
Yes, the archive.today links have that risk, but not the archive.org ones. Also, you can manually modify archive.today links to show the original link.
With the way this seems to works, can’t we just create thousands of links to let’s say Lemmy.world from all the other instances, to boost the LW domain authority? Shouldn’t all the crossposts links be taken into account in this calculation?
That might be one reason lemmy.world has a relatively high domain authority.
And if yes, then do 3 links here really make a difference?
Your 3 links won't make a difference. Starting a trend and spreading the word will.
That might be one reason lemmy.world has a relatively high domain authority.
Can this be improved? Can we post link to LW on every existing Lemmy instance to increase its authority?
In this case, what prevents Reddit from creating their own network of fake instances, with bots users, and posts Reddit links everywhere there to increase their own authority?
I'm no SEO expert, but search engines penalize websites for gaming the system. I've already read some suggestions that Google is not sure what to do with the fediverse because it already looks like spam, and that may be why it doesn't show up often in search results. That's beyond my knowledge.
Why does it say BLOCKED in front of the link old.reddit.com?
The link works fine here btw.
I think that Reddit blocked LW from automatically retrieving the info.
Ah yes the API shit probably.
Thanks.
I even set a different sorting but it still defaults to a weird sorting. Sort of like best/top