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Reddit at least shows up in searches. I also think it's important not to look at the past with rose colored glasses. I think some random forum is much more like
by matwood 2y ago
Reddit at least shows up in searches. I also think it's important not to look at the past with rose colored glasses. I think some random forum is much more likely to disappear than a subreddit.
- elondaits 2y agoI don’t think it’s rose colored glasses. Google saw the value of forums as a source of information when it bought and indexed Deja News’ usenet archive. A lot of pop and early Internet culture resided there. This was then turned into Google Groups, underfunded, targeted and businesses, and more or less buried. Independent forums (phpBB, and the like) often came up on searches before this communities moved to Facebook Groups, where they’re mostly set to private due to spammers. Similarly there was a time when Google indexed tweets more or less live, so you could find information for very recent events. I think Twitter asked for money and so that was the end of this. Now I think Reddit, and maybe Stack Overflow, are the only things helping Google be anything more than an extremely hostile version of the yellow pages. I fear Reddit might at some point withdraw their content from Google and that’ll be the end of it.
- data-ottawa 2y agoUnfortunately keeping things up to date, secure, and free of spam is a lot of effort. Is very compelling to take your content where eyeballs already are, especially when you can let someone else take care of the hard parts for “free”
- malfist 2y agoReddit shows up in searches now. In a decade though? You used to be able to browse Facebook and Twitter without an account but not anymore