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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Why is lemmy obsessed with talking about its ex

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That's just the way it is.

When Reddit was new, it mentioned Digg a lot.
When Digg was new, it mentioned /. a lot.
When /. was new (yes, I was there, too), it mentioned Usenet a lot.

At some points in time, the likes of The WELL, the Facepunch forums and Metafilter got their own mentions, prompting me to check them out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No Fark? No Plastic?

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Goes to Google and types in a search

  • Reddit

  • Reddit

  • Forum post that links back to Reddit

  • YouTube that's just a bunch of screenshots of Reddit over an automated voice

  • Reddit again

Why won't my ex leave me the fuck alone?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I've long since stopped using Google. Theres not any search engines I've found that mimic Google in its height, but many of them are better than what Google is now. Even bing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Goes to Google and types in a search

Reddit

Reddit

Forum post that links back to Reddit

YouTube that’s just a bunch of screenshots of Reddit over an automated voice

Reddit again

Why won’t my ex leave me the fuck alone?

Oh boy... Just wait until they go full into Gemini. They're starting to use Gemini and AI in general for search capabilities.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Reddit actually solved that problem for me by blocking themselves from appearing in Bing search results.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ahh that explains why Ecosia has remained so pleasant to use. Bing can't scrape it anymore 😅

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Im on searxng so i still see reddit but i dont comment or post.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Christ, don't make me switch to Bing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just switch to Duck Duck Go. It's Bing with less spying on you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Either DuckDuckGo or Startpage both are quite decent and serve the same purpose.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Agreed. Lemmy has its own issues .

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, at the core, people cause problems when the group gets too big to be a tight knit one. There are also a not insignificant amount of people, who get together, with antisocial behavior in mind. When you have thousands of people, posting on some community forum, it will be impossible for it not have some serious underlying issues. Not to even think of the scale of places like reddit, where that forum could have millions of users.

Back in the day, when IRC ruled the social scene of the internet, it was hard to control a channel that had 100+ people on it, forget about crowds orders of magnitude larger.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

She did me dirty bro she deserves it