Holy fucking shit what a ridiculous country.
dan
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Yeah they were already doing that, I imagine he took a look at how many inbound visits come from Google and quickly U-turned
Oh cool I thought it was my phone being shit.
Wow, not only did they try to do an astroturfing job on their own site, but they also fucked it up. I don't know why I'm shocked, they fucked everything else up lately.
On a related but different subject, did you know that even before the blackouts Reddit were paying people to make random low effort posts in various subreddits?
Have a look at this user's posts prior to the blackouts: https://old.reddit.com/user/WelshCai/
And read this (which was posted after he got accused of being a karma farming bot), note the admin comment confirming it: https://old.reddit.com/user/WelshCai/comments/130zbw6/i_am_a_community_builder_for_reddit/
Community builders are "vetted and paid by Reddit for their time": https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/4418715794324-What-is-the-Community-Builders-Program-
Despite claiming they work with mods, the mods of those subreddits don't seem to be aware of this, as evidenced by this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Leeds/comments/138gi40/reddit_community_builders_please_read_details/
Who knows how many people they pay to try to influence the site?
Precisely what happened to Boost:
https://teddit.net/r/BoostForReddit/comments/14qaf7u/real_reason_boost_is_still_up_because_reddit/
So they ignored Boost, but meanwhile they actually blocked Apollo before the deadline: https://mastodon.social/@christianselig/110635856662952525
Which really does support the theory that Spez is just being stubborn and vindictive.
TIL, thanks!
Oh shit I've repeated this to people and confidently claimed I can "feel" the difference with light roasts. Brains are stupid.
I think they mostly handled it well, and ultimately the situation was resolved, but I still think they should have been a lot more up front about what they were doing.
I use it everywhere but the search results are... variable. However it's plenty good enough for most situations.
I still switch back to Google if I'm not finding what I want (using DDG's !g keyword, which is pretty helpful - just add that anywhere in a search and it'll send you to Google), but at least I'm only doing that when I'm aware of it.
I just went on a hunt through all the versions I could find and the audio’s not great on any of them. I’m waiting on that one.