I went searching for something today and instinctually clicked on a reddit link. Fortunately the sub was dark for the protest anyway, but it’s crazy how ingrained in me it is to go to reddit for everything.

Unfortunately now we’re going to have to get used to clicking on those clickbait tech articles like “TOP 10 FACEBOOK ALTERNATIVES 2023” to find information, and weed out the crappy blogs.

  • BeyonDespair@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It doesn’t help the fact that depending of the question, every single answer ends up being only on reddit and nowhere else.

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      1 year ago

      This is one of the problems for me. I frequently search tech issues and more often than not, a lot of links are from Reddit.

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        1 year ago

        Really specific issues are more often than not only found in reddit, and that’s not even all, for me at least; a lot of those answers in reddit are short and to the point. Sometimes you search for the solution of a problem and find posts on websites filled with irrelevant information that you don’t really have the time/patience to read. . .

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          1 year ago

          Agree. Here’s hoping that eventually we shall see the same amount and quality of information in the fediverse.

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      1 year ago

      I have this problem because Google hasn’t been as good the past few years unless I append “reddit” to my search. During all of this going on, I’ve been trying to be diligent about viewing the cached version instead, but it’s not always available.