cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/65915774
Reddit users can now hide posts, comments, and NSFW history
I will be shocked if Reddit makes it past these next 3.5 years. Open traded company banning people for not agreeing with their agenda. Then points out how current administration is abusing their power. May want to fetch a mirror to look into with that much hypocrisy.
A lot of the strength of Reddit was that it was indexed by the big search engines. Take that away and it stops being a destination for searches for useful information. Everything Reddit has done in the past few years to paywall the API and reduce transparency, is just ensuring it becomes another irrelevant echo chamber of “alternative facts”.
They have a deal with Google to allow them to index it. As long as Google stays on top reddit will still be searchable for the majority of people.
this shouldn’t affect indexing. the posts and comments are hidden in user profiles, not the subs in which they’re posted.
so this is less about hiding your comments overall and more to hide your activity from being monitored by other users which is terrible because I like to take a look at a user’s other comments before i assume ill or good will.
Reposting as we might’ve mainly missed this a month back - not only will spammers block you so you don’t call them out again, but they’ll hide their comment histories so you have no real indication they’re not worth your time.
Just what the Internet needs these days: less accountability for what you say and do.
harder to see if they are botting, especially propaganda bots are so rampant on reddit. plus the other bots that arnt propaganda.
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