Reddit doesn’t seem to understand what their platform is for. If people are adding “reddit” to the end of google searches, it shows that they want brands to talk less, and real people to talk more.
no no no, they don’t want you to use google. They want you to use Reddit search instead, because it’s so awesome!
They put the same amount of time, effort, research, and engineering into Reddit search that they put into the official Reddit app!
That’s great news, I’m really digging the slow downfall.
They are getting very close to what brought Digg down. Amazing they could forget the very thing that brought Reddit to the mainstream in the first place.
Something something die a hero something something become the villain.
Further proof that Reddit is committed to copying every stupid decision that the Muskrat makes.
I guess there will just be a bunch of verified accounts running around doing “organic” marketing for their latest projects now.
Boy, I am sure glad nobody has ever done that on Lemmy before.
Weren’t they already doing that? I swear, you read some posts and it’s like a PR team is trying to get a story buried. Like after a Leo DiCaprios dating history got air time you started seeing him in more memes the next days, and TILs about how he was a good actor
They were/are. They’re just making it official now.
Just saw a post by Bloomberg and u/Bloomberg has a little green checkmark by their name.
TILs about how he was a good actor
Academy Award sigh winning character actor.
yeah. they’re called “ads”
Silence, brand.
This will just make them be down voted to oblivion by default… See EA
Remember when reddit was people oriented?
So 2013-2014? Lol
That’s cool, I think a lot of us here would label Reddit as verifiably stupid.
I don’t see anything immediately wrong with verification. There are cases where people reach out to companies for support, and having them be verified helps. Tech enthusiasts like us might be less susceptible to phishing/scams, but regular folks aren’t.
However, after everything Reddit has done recently, there’s no stopping them from turning this into a status symbol thing like “the website formerly known as Twitter”. They could tweak their algorithm to boost comments of “verified” accounts, degrading the quality of conversation there.
