So big tech gutted the internet with their search engine,
reddit was on of the few places you could get useful, organic content
reddit decided to fuck with the people generating this content
content generating users did not like it, start to strike
google’s shiti engine can’t return any decent results besides SEO optimized trash
What do you mean broke? Getting sexy pics of John Oliver is a significant upgrade to the normal dross you find insite:reddit
What’s happening is that the bigger communities that are just about a topic but not really a tribe or wealth of useful data (think r/funny or r/pics) stick around.
reddit is valuable because it has so many smaller niche communities dedicate to specific tribes. But these are now leaving or shutting down, see r/blind and r/EvilGenius and r/Minecraft ( https://kbin.social/m/technology@beehaw.org/t/67146/r-blind-community-migrates-to-Lemmy https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/92087/r-EvilGenius-was-a-labour-of-love-and-u-Spez-shat-in https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/104772/Minecraft-is-leaving-Reddit )
And individual users are deleting or editing their comments before they close their user accounts. So a lot of the good info that used to be on reddit - that made reddit valuable - is leaving.
It’s a shame really. The Reddit hack really was the only way to get around all the SEO crap invading your search results.
Glad Google seems to be, at least briefly, realising the problem. People want actual answers, not useless crap designed to look like them.
I’d like to see a search engine that has a setting to just search forums. Organic user generated content is where most of the valuable information is, at least for troubleshooting/ product recommendations/ hobbies.
Certainly for niche stuff, it is one of the best ways to get any information period.
It’s crazy how badly google fucked up the internet with their shitty SEO rules. I can’t find what I’m looking for half the time because I need to sort through a ton of bullshit once I get passed the ads.
