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.

  •  Wiitigo   ( @Wiitigo@lemmy.world ) English
    20•1 year ago

    I was going to ask in a full post, but as a comment on this topic would be better: what kind of modifiers would we type in when we want to narrow a web search scope to the fediverse? Like, it’s easy to just add ‘reddit’ to any query, that instantly cuts out all the BS. Hoping there’s some magic keyword in the metadata in the ActivityPub guts.

    Someone feel free to start a full post on this, if you figure it’s warranted.

    •  Turtle   ( @Turtle@lemmy.world ) English
      13•1 year ago

      This is a very good question - when I’m troubleshooting things my default search pattern is: “<problem> 2023 reddit”, because 99% of the other search results are pure garbage.