Reddit used to be a pretty cool thing. And it still has a lot of good information. But I always feel dirty when I do resort to searching Reddit for information.
Aaron Swartz would be appalled.
I feel like Aaron 100% would have backed Lemmy.
(Edit: Not that I or anyone can speak for him, obviously.)
I have never gotten a reliable answer from a quora result. I avoid them like the plague now.
I’ve only ever seen Quora as a joke, I didn’t think people were actually getting good answers there.
Quora is off brand yahoo answers. All of the misinformation and none of the humor
And a vaguely intellectual name, as if knowledgeable people go and post there all the time, when its’ actual academic facade is more analogous to stock photo models wearing labcoats and goggles.
I’m pretty sad these days when I see an issue marked as solved, but then when I get to the solution it just says “this comment has been deleted in objection to the API changes and Steve Huffman is a dirty little piss boy”. We’ve lost millions of hours worth of answers because of Reddit 's greed.
The best way to find information on the internet is to give up on Google and use Kagi. Add a question mark at the end of your search and it’ll summarize all of the top results for you, directly giving you the answer and saving you tons of time. They include sources if you want to dig deeper.
Only thing holding me back from Kagi is the impossibility of privacy and a credit card associated with my user.
That’s understandable, but you’re nowhere near private with Google either. They definitely know who you are, even if you never log in. At least with Kagi they’re not logging everything and keeping a record of everything you do. They do have an option to enable history, but I have it turned off.
They do have an option to enable history, but I have it turned off.
Actually, that “setting” is there just for show. It can’t be turned on. Underneath the setting, it says
Currently this option can not be turned on. Kagi does not save any searches by default. In the future we may add features that will utilize your search history and then we will allow you to enable this.
Any chance they accept gift cards or a temporary Visa you can charge up? If not, that would be a bummer.
For sure. They don’t care how the money arrives. Tell them whatever lies you need to tell them as long as the credit card number matches up.
For the record, the real trick is to add “site:reddit.com”. But as the site decays over time that will sadly become less useful.
I really think they are going to start requiring logins or the app to view most content. That seems to be what they are going toward with the “unreviewed content” thing.
100%. To be honest I don’t even use this “trick” anymore myself because like 60% of the links are inaccessible now.
It’s incredibly sad that they destroyed such a great resource, that place was like the Wikipedia of opinions.
old reddit
For now you can use RedReader to circumvent their app.
This ain’t just Google. SEO effectively killed all search engines. As an IT guy who’s been googling shit before I was 10, I can’t find shit anymore.
The entire internet has become a toxic mess.
Sadly this is how I feel too. Everything is trying to squeeze a dime out of my eyes. Man I don’t even buy shit unless I absolutely need it.
I genuinely can’t trust google results to be true and unbiased anymore. Nowadays I use a combination of google results, reddit results, Quorn results, ChatGPT fever dreams, and dead reckoning.
This is the issue though. I subscribed to chatgpt plus hoping it would do the work for me, but chatgpt (although it understands a lot) still fails to tell me what I need by ‘browsing the web’. I also tried every other known search engine out there but sadly the results are very similar (ddg, bing). So I feel like I’m trapped in a loop where I can’t get out.
Reddit makes me feel dirty.
Quora is just plain vomit.
Yes this is the only reason I still have a Reddit account
Why do you need a Reddit account? Deleted mine, noticed no difference.
They block VPN users most of the time nowadays if you’re not logged in.
That’s weird considering they still run an Onion site: https://www.reddittorjg6rue252oqsxryoxengawnmo46qy4kyii5wtqnwfj4ooad.onion/
I like to use drug related subreddits that you can’t view without logging in
It’s the only reason I bothered patching my former app of choice.
REDLIB.
These days, I only ever use Reddit to find answers and to comment in one small community I probably could not live without. I’ve drastically cut down on my Reddit usage since whole API debacle.
(Don’t ask about trying to move that community to Lemmy. Already had someone ask that repeatedly the last time I mentioned this. They’ve polled their users, and they’re not moving.)
Y’all closing your browser tab at the end? I just leave the tab open, just Incase I need it (or the other 200 tabs I haven’t touched in months)
I have never in my life got any useful information out of Quora.
In fact, it’s so bad that when I mistakenly click on a Quora link, and I have some time to kill, I read the page to have a solid laugh at all the stupid answers in there that gets promoted.
Came here to say pretty much this. I will add that one time years ago I went back and gave a correct answer after I had found it. The next time I looked it wasn’t displayed. At that point I determined that quora was a scam site.
I think you can filter out Quora results using uBlock, but you need to Google it so, good luck haha
Just use: https://search.marginalia.nu/ It crawls forums, wikis and other human generated content.
No SEO garbage, scammers or AI. (mostly) It’s still very much an alpha.Nice find! I will switch.
Instead of reddit you can use stackexchange but in the end you don’t get your answer
not only that but we get a fresh look at why we were wrong and shouldn’t have asked the question in the first place
I hate that google has become a verb
I agree.
I hate to tell you that it’s been a verb for nearly two decades now?
And i have been hating it all this time!
Recently i heard someone tell me that they just googled ‘lower decks’ on amazon prime…
Google the company doesn’t deserve to be a verb
I still have a Reddit account but I stopped posting anything to it a couple of years ago. I only use it for a few niche things I can’t find anywhere else, like r/SamsungWatchFaces
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I got banned too, because I posted pictures of Nazis on r/beholdthemasterrace, and they said I was harassing Nazis.
So Reddit supports Nazis.
Someone has it in for me over there. I have been temporarily banned twice in the last several months. It’s insane. I think I am done with that site.
