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And saw a bunch of posts about the third party apps closing down, and lots of negativity about that whole fiasco.

... And I realized I hadn't been there for a week... And frankly didn't miss it. I am really loving the beehaw (and Lemmy as a whole) community. Thanks for being open, welcoming, responsive, engaging, and just generally nice people. I'm happy to be here. :)

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[–] johnthedoe@beehaw.org 34 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I think I'm going to still use reddit to solve certain problems when googling. It's still a good resource for solving specific problems. Just won't spend any browsing time there. Just in an out.

[–] Echolot@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Same here, Google has slowly become unusable for certain topics if you don't append "reddit" to your search.

[–] nevird@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I started using DuckDuckGo actively in 2014. It has since been my primary search engine. It used to be very similar to google: minimalist, an ad placed as the first search result and that’s it. DDG has stayed pretty much the same. The few times I now wander on google to try to get different results, I just find it so unusable. Search results are swimming in an ocean of suggested content… I’m never going back.

[–] CannaVet@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Brave Search is getting better as well. The browser is already pretty solid, I'm using it now.

[–] setsneedtofeed@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I use brave on my phone. It autoblocks youtube ads, which is nice.

[–] Lowbird@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I do the same. It feels exactly the same, if not slightly better than, google search, now that search is so drowned in SEO spam anyways.

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