Pycorax

Is anyone really surprised by this? Social media that’s owned by an authoritarian country known for having extremely stringent censors would obviously take advantage of it the moment they could.

Has already been the case in Singapore but they require us to login to our digital government ID on some external vendor’s site which no one sure if they’re even reliable or not. It’s easy to work around by changing your account’s region though.

Not an option if you love somewhere where official parts are not for sale.

Second, the search engines that used to help drive users to Reddit mostly all have AI summaries / AI answers right there on the main search page these days. A lot of people read those AI results, get what they want right from Google (or otherwise), and never click any links over to Reddit.

Not just that but iirc a decision by reddit causes certain threads to only be displayed in search results without a post title and a description saying “the website doesn’t allow us to show you content” so why would anyone click on the Reddit links in a sea of other links?

It wouldn’t have flopped if they didn’t just gave up on it. They were so far ahead of everyone else but just like they did with WP, they refused to continue building up its potential.