It looks like Reddit is currently trying new ways to enshittify its algorithm
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Posted in r/RedditAlternatives by u/F-b • 329 points and 59 comments
          • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgOPEnglish
            3·
            3 months ago

            Well you still have the direct links, so it doesn’t make a difference.

            It does, buy giving people choices?

            It reminds me of people who added Invidious links back in the day, but over time the individious instances would go down, preventing people from knowing which content was initially linked.

            https://moz.com/learn/seo/domain-authority https://moz.com/learn/seo/backlinks

            The best way to influence the Domain Authority metric is to improve your site’s overall SEO health, with a particular focus on the quality and quantity of external links pointing to your site.

            With the way this seems to works, can’t we just create thousands of links to let’s say Lemmy.world from all the other instances, to boost the LW domain authority? Shouldn’t all the crossposts links be taken into account in this calculation?

            And if yes, then do 3 links here really make a difference?

            • Anon518English
              1·
              3 months ago

              It reminds me of people who added Invidious links back in the day, but over time the individious instances would go down, preventing people from knowing which content was initially linked.

              Yes, the archive.today links have that risk, but not the archive.org ones. Also, you can manually modify archive.today links to show the original link.

              With the way this seems to works, can’t we just create thousands of links to let’s say Lemmy.world from all the other instances, to boost the LW domain authority? Shouldn’t all the crossposts links be taken into account in this calculation?

              That might be one reason lemmy.world has a relatively high domain authority.

              And if yes, then do 3 links here really make a difference?

              Your 3 links won’t make a difference. Starting a trend and spreading the word will.

              • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgOPEnglish
                1·
                3 months ago

                That might be one reason lemmy.world has a relatively high domain authority.

                Can this be improved? Can we post link to LW on every existing Lemmy instance to increase its authority?

                In this case, what prevents Reddit from creating their own network of fake instances, with bots users, and posts Reddit links everywhere there to increase their own authority?

                • Anon518English
                  1·
                  3 months ago

                  I’m no SEO expert, but search engines penalize websites for gaming the system. I’ve already read some suggestions that Google is not sure what to do with the fediverse because it already looks like spam, and that may be why it doesn’t show up often in search results. That’s beyond my knowledge.