I keep thinking this would have been a much better sell to devs and to users. I have always used Sync, and Boost. I tried the official app a few times, but really only used it for the chat feature. I didn’t want to pay for it, but (I am embarrassed to admit it) I would pay premium to keep my app. I think this would have worked out better for Reddit than the garbage they are pulling right now.

Would that have been a more reasonable solution in your opinion as well?

  • LifeInOregon@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    The intentionally part is my only difficulty. I’d not realized until last week just how many search results were Reddit threads. I need to start excluding Reddit from my search results.

    • Thanks4Nothing@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      2 years ago

      The fiasco has broke google results since the protest…I am not sure Google is going to keep prioritizing those results of it ends in a poor user experience.

    • Ulu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, google search is a pain without reddit, I setup a WIndows VM to try Bing Chat, I’ll see how it goes.

      I don’t use ChatGPT because I don’t want to give them my phone number, Bing Chat only requires an email and that’s fine for me (got a throwaway one just for that).

    • AttackBunny@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      I’ve clicked a few links on here, not realizing they would go to Reddit. Only to immediately close the screen, when I realized.

      And on the 12th, until I moved Apollo off my homescreen, I opened, and then immediately closed the app.

      I’ve been a lot more careful now. I also agree that google is more shit without Reddit. Google had already become pretty useless, imo, anyhow. With all the sponsored shit. I also think there was at least a period of time on the 14tb that google excluded all Reddit responses. I searched for something, fully expecting Reddit to be at the top. I scrolled for a while, and there was no Reddit results. It was weird.