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.
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2024
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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
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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.
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it'll summarize all of the top results for you, directly giving you the answer
This is literally what the Google AI thing that everyone has been mocking does. For example, it suggested gluing cheese onto a pizza because that was a highly up voted comment on the reddit thread that was the top search results.
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Sadly, their CEO is kind of a weirdo. There was a recent post chain on Mastodon I think where a user shared their disappointment with Kagi - had something to do with their not being as privacy-focused as they claimed they are - and the CEO just decided to keep sending unsolicited emails to the OP about this, trying to with them over with phone and video calls
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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.
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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.
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Reddit makes me feel dirty.
Quora is just plain vomit.
yahoo answers shutdown ruined it all.
Directions unclear. Reddit blocks my work IP for “network security” unless accounts are used to maximize data collection.
I've found that alternative reddit frontends bypass this. That and I believe changing the URL to old reddit.
Of course, this will only work until (if?) Reddit is successful in removing old reddit and preventing third party front-end.
Do you mean New Old Reddit or Old Old Reddit? /hj
No, seriously, they're apparently working on a New New Reddit to replace their half-baked New Old Reddit (and presumably their still-working-perfectly Old Old Reddit).
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.
Fuck their little "network security" bullshit!
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It's the only reason I bothered patching my former app of choice.
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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.
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Hit the gym. Delete reddit. Lawyer up.
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)
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.)
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.
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Not as useful now that so many of us who left Reddit deleted all of our comments on there. Broke a lot of those question and answer threads.
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
Reddit used to be really cool for actual niche advice without getting slapped with advertising. I tried to buy a certain kind of laptop, all the results were ads that contained those words, not what I was looking for. Heaven forbid I want pants that fit a certain body type or anything specific. Sometimes there are still older posts but…eh.
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
Just go straight to Wikipedia.
For local information, such as what is the best inexpensive insurance in your city, for example, Wiki can't answer.
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This is the way.
I deleted a year ago and can count on one hand the number of times I've used reddit since.
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