This article is on Medium, which has a paywall. I’m a member, but not logged in. I was able to read it so it may depend on how many times you’ve read Medium articles.

One point he made that I found interesting was:

So, in light of all of this, should Reddit even exist? Is there really a point to a web forum in 2023? Aren’t we past all that?

He thinks we are. I never thought about it before. Maybe in the case of some Reddit subreddits and other forums, but I don’t think so in general. I’ve got a lot great information from forums.

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    The only problem is the “<how to solve this issue> reddit” google search. If these discussions start to be lemmy and we append lemmy instead of reddit, in time there’s gonna malicious instances that fill the site with ads and generate content with AI just to get to that google 1st page.

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      There’s also no centralised Lemmy site/index yet that centralises that information.

      That’s fine and all if you’re looking for content on somewhere like lemmy.ml, or lemmy.world, but you might run into problems if you’re trying to search for something that might be located on beehaw, or sh.it.just.works instead, which doesn’t have the word “lemmy”, and might get skipped.

      You also have places like Kbin, which don’t get captured in a search at all, both because they’re not lemmy, and also because they don’t contain the word lemmy, which doesn’t help if you’re trying to search something that you thought was on Lemmy, but is in fact on a Kbin magazine.

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      Honestly - it’s Google’s job to find a solution to that. They have bright people, I’m sure they can figure it out.

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        Assuming they care enough to do so. But with all the SEO spam that’s flooding their search results that they don’t seem to be doing much about, I’m not optimistic. ~Cherri

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      How is that different than what’s currently on reddit? Unless you are talking about 5 years ago, modern reddit is filled with manipulated conversations