c/technology@lemmy.world · sanitation@lemmy.today · 23 Aug 2026 16:21 Reddit fades from ChatGPT citations https://www.axios.com/2026/08/20/chatgpt-reddit-citations-geo-strategy check post at origin
I don’t understand what the plan is. Becoming irrelevant and making it hard for users to access your site sounds like a losing play.
In the long term. In the short term, spez makes a lot of money.
I think they got all they needed from us. It doesn’t matter what they do now. They sold years of conversations and information.
Their moat is people not being arsed to make an account on a service that’s not actively hostile to its users.
The plan is to artificially inflate the number of users with bots to fool advertisers into thinking there are a lot more users than there really is so they’ll advertise on Reddit. This is the only thing that matters now.
they want to follow META and tiktoks footsteps.