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News outlets turn to Reddit as Musk’s X descends into chaos. But with thousands of subreddits, where exactly news sites should promote their work presents a dilemma (www.washingtonpost.com)
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[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

How I'm reading those news: "as astroturfing in Twitter becomes unviable, online pulp magazines turn to Reddit. They're clueless on how to navigate the place and, once they learn how to do it, Reddit Inc. will spoil their fun by finding some way to squeeze them dry, and because Reddit is undergoing the same process as Twitter that makes you uneasy to associate your brand with that place."

“We had some organic success on Reddit. So we were like, we should start being more intentional,” said Brady Stone

"We found some grassroots there. We should replace it with astroturfing ASAP."

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago

Out of the frying pan into the toilet bowl.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

They should turn to mastodon. Https://Press.coop is ready and waiting.

[–] Stern 11 points 7 months ago

"Musk is bad lets go to the platform of a guy who idolizes Musk instead this will surely end well."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

News outlets turn to Reddit

yet another step toward peak enshittification

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

AND at the whim of moderators and administrators if the material will 'get you banned' or not. Reichit more like these days.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

This is actually one of the main weaknesses of reddit. Was planning to write an article about it. Damn it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Just when you thought Reddit couldn't get any worse...