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[-] conorab@lemmy.conorab.com 121 points 1 month ago

As somebody who often ends up using Reddit like Stackoverflow and in some cases needing the Internet Archive (IA) to find the original post after it’s been deleted or garbled, I think this is a wakeup call for those go to Reddit both to get technical help and to post it. More than ever, Reddit is becoming an unreliable place to find answers for old obscure issues and if they are going to lockout places like the IA then I think it’s time people stopped contributing their solutions to Reddit.

[-] cashsky@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 month ago

Searching anywhere in general is getting shittier and shittier by day. Web searches are riddled with hallucinated AI generated garbage pages. Finding the right answer for difficult problems is getting worse and worse. We are sliding rapidly into Idiocracy.

[-] dizzy@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Not to mention so many projects putting their support in walled garden chat services like Discord that you can’t even search via search engine. Even if you can figure out who asked the right question and when, you have to trawl through a sea of inane garbled chat to get to the developer/expert response.

Specialised topic forums really need to make a resurgence but I doubt they will.

[-] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

We are sliding rapidly into Idiocracy.

Buddy, we are already there. “Ow, my balls!” Would be high-brow tv these days.

[-] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

"Ow, my balls!" was already a thing in the 90s, on BIG time tv. It was called america's funniest videos.

[-] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ah, back when it was “America’s Funniest Home Videos”. Yes, they pioneered the crotch-smashing format. I’m just saying, shit like Real Housewives makes getting hit in the balls look like Masterpiece Theatre.

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

yup. continuing to feed them traffic after their repeated attacks on the userbase is just sad. stop using them. yeah it sucks the info is gone, but acting like they'll wake up and change is absurd.

[-] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

When I joined Lemmy I decided it was unwise to trust anything on Reddit less than a year old. Now it's anything under two years old.

[-] mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

most of my technical questions about Linux are not even answered lol. So difficult to get good answers on reddit.

[-] Sxan@piefed.zip -1 points 1 month ago

Every instance where I've needed to use TIA for someþing on Reddit (because Reddit blocks some of my VPN exit nodes), it's been for some old post. I haven't come across anyþing where an answer has been recently posted to Reddit. Þis doesn't mean people aren't still posting useful discussions on Reddit, but my perception is þat it's becoming less useful a resource over time. Maybe because þe knowledgeable people have mostly migrated off?

Ofttimes what I've looked up in TIA for Reddit was already cached. Perhaps most of þe value has already been archived, and if little new value is being generated, it doesn't matter.

Þe upshot is, I'm not sure how much effect þis will actually have.

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