• DeriHunter@lemmy.world
      13·
      1 year ago

      I don’t think you understand, we are the ones who are getting fucked. Search results are getting worse and harder for you to find what you need with all the ads, fake news, sponsored sites, ai generated articles, etc… Google doesn’t care if you find high quality results, they will still gett traffic and their money because people won’t just stop using it.

      • CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        1 year ago

        1. Don’t use Google.

        2. Learn how to search the internet, its not hard.

        3. Adblock is your friend.

        4. People will stop using it only when it becomes unbearable. Their own business tbh.

      • BlackCoffee@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’ve been hearing some good things about Kagi so i have been contemplating to try it.

        It is subscription based but still;
        If there is a service that serves me as a customer to better my experience using a search engine than I’ll gladly pay for it.

      • privacyn@feddit.itEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        There good and sometimes better alternatives to Google, you can easily leave without it or use it only when necessary

        • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          It doesn’t solve the issue that the answer you’re looking for is on Reddit and isn’t accessible anymore…

          I mean, good for us for screwing up Reddit, but the transition impacts more than just Reddit itself because subreddits are going private and people are deleting their posts, that’s a whole lot of knowledge just disappearing from the internet overnight and that’s never a good thing! I don’t know how many times I tried to find solutions or answers to tech related questions and the only place I could find an actual answer was on Reddit because it was actual people speaking to each other!

          • DeriHunter@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Yeah, for the short term. But the long term if lemmy can become the successor. It won’t be long until it get will get back to normal

  • eToThePiIPower@programming.dev
    3·
    1 year ago

    One long-term solution would be to ask the relevant question in a relevant community on lemmy every time this happens to you. Then answer it yourself (or wait for other to), perhaps using the other site (via archive.org) as a reference when writing it up.

    The important bit is to make sure the answer here is complete and not just a link to outside sources. That way it won’t disappear if those other sites go offline.

    With enough people doing this we can push lemmy into those search results and build a useful & independent repository of knowledge.

  • angrylittlekitty@lemmy.one
    2·
    1 year ago

    all attention to this mess is good imho. also remember chat gpt was trained on reddit data i until fall 2021 so should be able to pull on archived zeitgeist for a quick and dirty answer

  • CharlesReed@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    Not just with subs going private, but with users purging their comments and posts along with their accounts. Just last night I was talking to a friend about something and wanted to pull up a post from a while back. Lo and behold, deleted and gone.

  • itchy_lizard@feddit.it
    11·
    1 year ago

    Please post LINKS to Lemmy, not screenshots of headlines. Ffs, even your “source” link goes to an image, not the article

    Mods, can we please crack down on this dumb-ification of Lemmy? We’re better than tiktok.

  • Banzai51@midwest.social
    0·
    1 year ago

    It’s temporary until useful info gets posted elsewhere. Besides, Reddit wasn’t the only place for good info.

    • starlinguk@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      It was a terrible place to get info. Most answers were either deleted, someone showing off about the topic but not actually answering the question or OP saying “never mind, I figured it out” and riding off into the sunset.