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Reddit fades from ChatGPT citations
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Reddit fades from ChatGPT citations
www.axios.com/2026/08/20/chatgpt-reddit-citations-geo-strategyI 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.
And we’re about to watch Anthropic go through the same thing with their IPO. Late-stage capitalism sucks.
Their moat is people not being arsed to make an account on a service that’s not actively hostile to its users.
I think they got all they needed from us. It doesn’t matter what they do now. They sold years of conversations and information.
they want to follow META and tiktoks footsteps.
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.