News outlets turn to Reddit as Musk’s X descends into chaos. But with thousands of subreddits, where exactly news sites should promote their work presents a dilemma : reddit

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News outlets turn to Reddit as Musk’s X descends into chaos. But with thousands of subreddits, where exactly news sites should promote their work presents a dilemma (www.washingtonpost.com)

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[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 33 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

How I'm reading those news: "as astroturfing in Twitter becomes unviable, online pulp magazines turn to Reddit. They're clueless on how to navigate the place and, once they learn how to do it, Reddit Inc. will spoil their fun by finding some way to squeeze them dry, and because Reddit is undergoing the same process as Twitter that makes you uneasy to associate your brand with that place."

“We had some organic success on Reddit. So we were like, we should start being more intentional,” said Brady Stone

"We found some grassroots there. We should replace it with astroturfing ASAP."

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 28 points 10 months ago

Out of the frying pan into the toilet bowl.

[–] MDKAOD@lemmy.ml 16 points 10 months ago

They should turn to mastodon. Https://Press.coop is ready and waiting.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

"Musk is bad lets go to the platform of a guy who idolizes Musk instead this will surely end well."

[–] spider@lemmy.nz 10 points 10 months ago

News outlets turn to Reddit

yet another step toward peak enshittification

[–] HowMany@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

AND at the whim of moderators and administrators if the material will 'get you banned' or not. Reichit more like these days.

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

This is actually one of the main weaknesses of reddit. Was planning to write an article about it. Damn it

[–] Luke_Fartnocker@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Just when you thought Reddit couldn't get any worse...

[+] ubermeisters@lemmy.world -19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Posting about elon AND reddit def gets you a block, sorry its a trifecta that can't be avoided on my end, I don't make the rules I just follow em

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A trifecta is three; Elon and reddit are two. Maybe you forgot to mention the paywall?

[+] ubermeisters@lemmy.world -12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Me blocking is the third part. Do you really assume you know what abword starting with TRI means. Bit others don't? Bitch please

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You are not using the word "trifecta" properly.

[+] ubermeisters@lemmy.world -9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Ok, webster 👍 cool story

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean, we aren't using it in the literal sense here. Literally, a trifecta is when you correctly guess the first three finishers in a race, in the correct order.

Now, if you had a propensity for blocking people who spoke about Elon, and you had a propensity for blocking people who spoke about reddit, and you had a propensity for blocking people who linked to paywalled articles, then you could colloquially say that OP "hit the trifecta", and "won" a ban.

Offhand, I can't think of a specific word where two instigating factors invite a specific response. I'm sure there is one, but I am equally sure that word is not "trifecta".

[+] ubermeisters@lemmy.world -8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Something in your head is broken, and I am still 100% fine with you not wrapping your head around my use of the term.. but your stunning lack of awareness regarding the plastic nature of the English language is absolutely a stark contrast against your otherwise seemingly well thought out verbiage defending your position.

Yes, Webster, congrats on understanding the origin of the term, being a portmanteau of "triple" and "perfecta". 100 points for this. You are docked just as many fake points, however, for not being up to speed on the more recent (colloquial) use case where any collection of 3 things, or ideas even, which are said to be complimentary to each other, are said to be a trifecta.

Nobody gives a fuck about horse racing terms. We do love ways to group like items still however.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The best colloquial term for that rant is probably "doubling down".

You are correct on one thing: I have not heard that phrase used in the manner in which you describe.

[–] ubermeisters@lemmy.world -5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I do find it hard to believe that you haven't heard the term outside of the initial portmanteau, so I suppose you could say i'm trifecting down.

go trifuckyourself if you're trolling me (i dont think you are, but i couldn't quickly find another excuse to use the term, apologies)

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

so I suppose you could say i'm trifecting down.

I suppose you could say that, but no, I could not.

[–] Meho_Nohome@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

You could if you had faith in yourself. My momma always said "Jeff, you could do anything you want if you weren't so damned stupid". That's why I never had faith in myself.

[–] Luke_Fartnocker@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

https://i.gifer.com/808j.gif

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 11 points 10 months ago

It might help to block the Reddit community if you don't want to see Reddit related content