Great article, probably confirming something a lot of people on here have already suspected. But I am honestly shocked at how dire this situation seems.
> Reddit isn't the only winner after Google's recent algorithm updates. SEMrush data shows that other user-generated sites such as Quora and Instagram saw similarly astronomical rises, and there were impressive spikes at LinkedIn and Wikipedia as well.
How can it be that after 20-30 years, it seems they have no way of knowing which sites produce genuine content and which do not?
And what’s worse, in what I can only describe as a frantic search for a solution, they simply turn to the largest players and bump up their weights.
They are killing the grassroots of the internet and when places like Reddit continue their inevitable path of enshittification the internet will be truly dead
Of course the internet is resilient and it will grow again, but we need to get this monopoly back in check fast.
> Reddit isn't the only winner after Google's recent algorithm updates. SEMrush data shows that other user-generated sites such as Quora and Instagram saw similarly astronomical rises, and there were impressive spikes at LinkedIn and Wikipedia as well.
How can it be that after 20-30 years, it seems they have no way of knowing which sites produce genuine content and which do not?
And what’s worse, in what I can only describe as a frantic search for a solution, they simply turn to the largest players and bump up their weights.
They are killing the grassroots of the internet and when places like Reddit continue their inevitable path of enshittification the internet will be truly dead
Of course the internet is resilient and it will grow again, but we need to get this monopoly back in check fast.