Feb 27, 2024
You know how people are prepending "site:reddit.com" in order to get actual answers for their search queries instead of SEO garbage?
As Reddit as Reddit may be, it's going to be a problem if Reddit dies.
Even if we get a lot of distributed forums again, each run as someone's personal hobby project like it's 2004, due to SEO garbage we'll have trouble finding them, and while scammers (seem to) prefer to use bots that fail the "potato test" (as some twitter users are calling it), more sophisticated spammers are likely to use LLMs, increasing moderation costs by making it trickier to sort legitimate users from fake ones.
