I love how search engines display inaccessible links.

      • @[email protected]
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        024 days ago

        That’s the problem isn’t it? We used to have forums where people discus things and blogs where people share what they’ve learned, now it is all Reddit and discord and absolute trash in between.

        • @[email protected]
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          024 days ago

          We still have forums and blogs. Search engines just don’t both including them in search results.

          You need to know about these niche communities, which are increasingly in micro-spaces like Discord or Mastodon channels or unmonitored communities like Lemmy.

          Which is more in line with Bad Old Web 1.0 than Good Old Web 1.5

          • @[email protected]
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            024 days ago

            They’re there, but harder to find. And some are closing. I’ve had two or three in the last couple years that closed, in the reasonably popular world of cars.

          • snooggums
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            024 days ago

            Discord is like gated communities on the internet. Not open to the public and not something that is publically indexed.

            It isn’t even comparable to mastadon or lemmy when it comes to being a source of information.

      • @[email protected]
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        024 days ago

        Does anyone else remember back in the early days of the internet when experts used to say, “The internet routes around problems”.

        I miss those early days.

        To @[email protected] , I see that a lot with searches now too but I just keep searching or find some other way around the problem. There’s no way I click in to Reddit any more. You do you, but I’m saying there’s always another option.

        • snooggums
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          024 days ago

          Honestly the internet will route around the loss of reddit just like it did with the loss of forums and other crowdsourced platforms that have died off over time. Yeah, we will lose a treasure trove of knowledge, but a lot of it was also outdated and the same questions will be asked again so the knowledge can be rebuilt.