FTA:
The last full version of the webpage, archived by the Internet Archive on July 17, still included the now-deleted sections. Parts of Section 8 of Article I, as well as all of Sections 9 and 10 of Article I are now gone from the live site. The deletions, as of August 6, are also archived here. The change was spotted by users on Lemmy, an open-source aggregation platform and forum.
It’s remarkable that Lemmy (specifically /u/[email protected] ) spotted, mass upvoted and reported it before gaining any kind of critical mass on Reddit.
Reddit’s new UI feels like it’s designed to discourage surfacing that kind of discovery and content…
I’ve found that Lemmy is incredibly quick with anything news-related. I mostly use the All-feed and if there’s any breaking news going on, it’ll be on the first page. Sometimes I head over to reddit to compare and the articles posted there will only start to gain traction 1-2 hours later.
Reddit changed their algorithm. I remember when it came to a boil almost a decade ago. They said they experimented with some changes to the algorithm but they changed it back. Somehow the front page slowed down to a crawl. I don’t know that it ever changed back.
Maybe this article is right and the algorithm is failing under the weight of upvotes, or maybe they tweaked it to better steer conversation, or maybe it’s just broke. Either way, I quit watching the front page long before I left Reddit for good.
I remember that day, and no it never got better
I wonder what in the hell the suits see as ‘the benefit’ of never fixing it
The tech was becoming too good at empowering people. Too many regimes were falling too fast. Thankfully we’re in control this time
We’ve effectively replaced reddit now. All that’s left is for scale to give us all the niche community goodness we all want and reddit will just be a faint nostalgic memory
A while ago I modified one of my browsers searchplugins to add " -reddit" to all google searches, so I get better results. Can recommend.
Honestly asking- without Reddit what’s left of Google besides AI generated SEO pages?
Actual special interest forums
I like your optimism
Great day for Lemmy! And it’s not even related to baked beans. Lemmy has so much more to offer the world :)
Yes absolutely. We have: not pooping, jeans, and Taylor Swift’s jet, among other things. Perhaps it’s time for a new one to make the rounds…?
Don’t forget orbs, tankies, femboys, and blood thirsty Linux users.
We also got: trekkies, mod/admin drama, lemmyvision, Stör, that guy that posts daily video game screenshots, Sandy the horse, owls, thirsty She-Ra shitposts…
I haven’t seen any thirst She-Ra shit posts. I have seen the owls from c/superbowl, Sandy the Horse, and the daily video game screen shots.
We also can’t forget the otters and opossums!
I tried to forget, I really tried, but once again I see that I cannot escape my fate. 🤪
This reminds me of a phrase/meme a Finnish friend told me about. Because Finland is such a small country, it’s not often that it’s relevant on an international context. This leads to the following phrase being said when Finland is spoken of:
“Suomi mainittu; torilla tavataan!” which translates to “Finland mentioned; let’s go meet at the town square (in an excited, celebratory manner)”
Along those lines, my response to this post was “Lemmy mainittu; torilla tavataan!”
Edit: removed “Welcome to Gboard clipboard, any text that you copy will be saved here.” that I had accidentally pasted
I love gboard, what a fun saying
Torille! 🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮
EDIT: moved the comment to the post, forgot we can have post text and links on lemmy
Hey, look at that! We’re a thing!
First we bombed an abortion clinic, now we’re bombing the White House.
I tried checking google trends to see if the article generated more searches for lemmy, but there’s still no category for the software lemmy, so we can’t distinguish from the searches for the musician.
That could work both ways though and we will get a boost any time the musician is cited by 404 media
