A lot of the strength of Reddit was that it was indexed by the big search engines. Take that away and it stops being a destination for searches for useful information. Everything Reddit has done in the past few years to paywall the API and reduce transparency, is just ensuring it becomes another irrelevant echo chamber of “alternative facts”.
this shouldn’t affect indexing. the posts and comments are hidden in user profiles, not the subs in which they’re posted.
so this is less about hiding your comments overall and more to hide your activity from being monitored by other users which is terrible because I like to take a look at a user’s other comments before i assume ill or good will.
A lot of the strength of Reddit was that it was indexed by the big search engines. Take that away and it stops being a destination for searches for useful information. Everything Reddit has done in the past few years to paywall the API and reduce transparency, is just ensuring it becomes another irrelevant echo chamber of “alternative facts”.
They have a deal with Google to allow them to index it. As long as Google stays on top reddit will still be searchable for the majority of people.
this shouldn’t affect indexing. the posts and comments are hidden in user profiles, not the subs in which they’re posted.
so this is less about hiding your comments overall and more to hide your activity from being monitored by other users which is terrible because I like to take a look at a user’s other comments before i assume ill or good will.