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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh please do! Great way to kill your site faster

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (3 children)

As much as I'd appeciate a shift away from Reddit elsewhere, I have to admit that Reddit is often among my most helpful Google results. No matter how stupid the recent management decisions are, it grew to a massive knowledge database over the years. Banning it from search engines would have a negative impact on the overall internet experience.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because SEO made Google bad and Reddit has a higher chance for a real person's opinion, which is fantastic. Though we don't need Reddit for that, we can fully replace it with Lemmy by now. But there's a not small part of people, who want to keep Lemmy small and unimportant. Just had that conversation yesterday, there's some gatekeeping going on.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don’t know if that’s the best way to frame the argument. It’s not about keeping this place “small and unimportant”, it’s that by now we’ve all seen what happens when websites like this get big.

Reddit started out as “it will always be free, and we’ll never mess with your personal data or shove ads down your throat” too. That’s just not sustainable when you start dealing with tens of millions of users and billions of page views a day. Hosting the servers capable of supporting the traffic alone will cost tens of millions of dollars per year.

In other words, if Lemmy gets as big or as popular as Reddit, it will get just as shitty and corporate as Reddit. Guaranteed.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The whole point of Lemmy being open source and federated is to prevent just that

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's everybody's duty to spread information away from a centralised service.

Facts are not subject to copyright.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Facts are not subject to copyright.

Hahaha, tell that to the textbook industry.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This. I often search for results from Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

As soon as the search indexing stops, Reddit will be permanently gone from my radar. Good riddance!