I refer to it as the social graph. When a site starts using metadata to map how users are related on a social platform. And then implementing features based on that. It’s not a buzzword but that’s the technical root that stems everything that makes an enshittified Facebookified site.

Unfortunately when reddit started becoming a social graph based site, the technical literacy of the user base also plummet. So nobody knew wtf a graph structure is.

The popular feed for Canada became voat. The far right subreddits are the top posts every single day.

It’s telling how new the reddit userbase is that they don’t know the histories of it. In for the first part of reddits existence it was full of warts. There was a saying, 402 it went through 404 try once more. Because reddit sucked at submitting comments so you had to keep retrying at times. Down times were so often too.

I figured sex toys are difficult to service because they have to be waterproof. I before reading through I was sure you’d find a lithium ion battery in there. There’s probably some devices out there with such batteries. It would be dangerous for these to burst into flames mid use.

Also charging in use means extra circuity so more complexity.

Am I the only one that’s noticed how reddit has been fucking with web crawlers? They insert newer comments into older posts so the crawlers pick up false results.

A few years back they started injecting a “related posts” box into pages. What that does is multiply the amount of results a crawler will pick up. But all those are false results. There’s only one true search result which is the original comment/post. Some times I find myself sifting though the search engine results to find the actual original post. The rest are completely worthless, off topic, reddit posts littering the search index.

I know all this blackout stuff hurts now. I see it as necessary for the platform to lose its status as the “front page of the internet”. Reddit turned evil a long time ago. It’s long past time it be deposed of.