How Google is killing independent sites like ours::And why you shouldn’t trust product reviews from big media publishers ranking at the top of Google.

  • SomeGuy69@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Just add “Reddit” tag to everything and cross link multiple posts talking about that content. Basically do the work for me of having to filter through so many threads and answers. Yeah sucks to be this co depending but this would generate clicks and catch people who search for “product x Reddit”. Of course you lose those who filter by site:reddit.com. I also hope Lemmy gets big to get rid of this Reddit codependency, because I want way less manipulated information but not from Reddit which becomes more and more astroturfed. I think it’s a pipedream to get completely rid of it but at least these responses are useful most of the time and not SEO optimized.

    • BlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Which is why anyone who’s ever helped on reddit should’ve sucked it up and FullDeleteSuited their account.

      I lost so much, but did it anyway.

      Then again I’ll be sucking it up and going back soon for anime and media discussions soon. Unfortunately there’s nowhere populated enough.

      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        They stored all the edits, from before the API changes. They can and have undeleted entire accounts. I agree that deleting the account would be nice, but they acted in bad faith from the Digg migration that I saw. I don’t believe that deleting the accounts worked, cause I did and I can find my old posts again.