- cross-posted to:
- tech@pawb.social
- informatica@feddit.it
- mozz ( @mozz@mbin.grits.dev ) 89•2 months ago
The cycle continues:
- Hey you guys can have everything for free
- WTF this is expensive to provide, I think I’m gonna start taking advantage of you guys which someone will pay me to do
- WTF where’s everyone going
- WTF I’m still losing money and always have been
- Screw you guys, screw everybody, I didn’t want y’all anyway
- (fades into irrelevance, gets bought by someone and stripped for parts)
Idk it’s not as pithy as Cory Doctorow’s version I guess
Anyway we’re at step 5 at this point
- xavier666 ( @xavier666@lemm.ee ) English11•2 months ago
The key capitalistic trick is to time your step 2 just when you have a critical mass on your platform. Upper management has understood that our shitty paywall will remove x% of our users from our platform. But if (100-x)% of our users can pay $y annually, we can sustain our business model and make $z of profit each year. PR will take care of all the backlash but it’s all calculated.
- Scrubbles ( @scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ) English33•2 months ago
The only way they get my clicks now are when I Google something and they come up.
They really keep making sure that I don’t end up there.
- Pup Biru ( @pupbiru@aussie.zone ) English14•2 months ago
libredirect helps with that on desktop
(browser extension that turns links to sites like reddit, youtube, etc into links to redlib, invidious)
just begin with site:reddit.com test for ddg and it still works
- KevonLooney ( @KevonLooney@lemm.ee ) 15•2 months ago
Are they new posts or old ones? They are blocking new ones, not old ones.
- Pup Biru ( @pupbiru@aussie.zone ) English14•2 months ago
new posts do not work
this post in /r/selfhosted is from 8hr ago: SWEKIT v0.1 - an open source library to build software engineering agents (DEVIN) in a agentic framework agnostic manner!
reddit/redlib: https://redlib.kylrth.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1eb86lf/swekit_v01_an_open_source_library_to_build/
doesn’t appear in DDG results: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Areddit.com+SWEKIT+v0.1+-+an+open+source+library+to+build+software+engineering+agents+(DEVIN)+in+a+agentic+framework+agnostic+manner!&t=ffit
I tested and it got lots of reddit queries from even 2 years ago afaik.
- KevonLooney ( @KevonLooney@lemm.ee ) 22•2 months ago
They are blocking new ones, not old ones.
I even have diverse reddit queries from last week and even 2 years ago. this workaround is still ok tbh
- ReversalHatchery ( @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ) English14•2 months ago
New means from yesterday, not from last week
- Mereo ( @Mereo@lemmy.ca ) 1•2 months ago
For old posts. I can’t find new posts on DDG. I find them on Google but not on DDG.
I tried brave search begin with site:reddit.com test and it still works
- GnuLinuxDude ( @GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml ) 16•2 months ago
There are numerous occasions where someone has a lingering question on Reddit that I see and know the answer to. It’s too bad it’s on Reddit because I no longer contribute to that website, and refuse to.
- Ragnarok314159 ( @Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz ) 5•2 months ago
All the decent answers I find are from 5+ years ago. I check the user’s activity and they normally quit the place. Warms the heart.
- blackris ( @blackris@discuss.tchncs.de ) 15•2 months ago
Too bad. Hey, crazy idea: let’s create an open alternative for reddit with good content! Maybe something in the fediverse or so.
- Swedneck ( @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ) 3•2 months ago
that would never work
- Unchanged3656 ( @Unchanged3656@infosec.pub ) 6•2 months ago
Brave search got an option for that.
begin with site:reddit.com test is much more accurate to get reddit search on brave search tbh
- ReversalHatchery ( @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ) English2•2 months ago
We need that for DDG. Opt-in, of course, but with a banner that makes it clear why is that really needed
- DeltaTangoLima ( @DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com ) English1•2 months ago
lol - fine by me. My private searx-ng instance already filters out Reddit from the results, and my Pi-holes block all known Reddit domains.
- kworpy ( @kworpy@lemm.ee ) English1•2 months ago
Your fault for using a major search engine honestly