The biggest thing I'll miss isn't actually being on reddit but the fact that basically any time you needed to look up somthing you could just google it and add site:reddit.com and find some good threads about it.. it's been a valuable knowledge base.

[–] elauso@feddit.de 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I also do this, but even before the recent turmoil I started losing confidence and trust. Brands know about this trick and they know how much consumers trust honest reviews by real people.

Generative AI like ChatGPT makes it easier than ever to flood subs with search-engine friendly posts and comments how awesome product X is...

[–] nlm@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

True.. look at reviews too for instance. Feels like more and more of them are generated by their owners in different ways to trick people. Same with tracks on spoitfy and so on as well, companies script playing their tracks all the time so they'll end up higher in rankins.

It's really starting to be hard to find anything that's honest these days.

[–] Chewy12@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

But you can check people’s comment history, at least for the time being it’s easy enough to notice if an account isn’t organic.

[–] sensibilidades@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed, although I do love that their own search engine was complete dogshit. That said, many of the posts I found really useful were at least five years old, sometimes as old as 12. In some ways it may be good for the knowledge base to update a bit. Actually, are Lemmy posts searchable the same way as Reddit?

[–] nlm@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

They should be when the search engines have had time to index them. You can access them without loggin in so it should be fine?

[–] chraqs@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago

Agreed, I feel like the social part of reddit is pretty easily replaceable but the amount of niche and specialised information was incredible

[–] timkenhan@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Isn't there the reddit archive project?

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

Really don't know tbh, could be useful but extremely storage heavy.

[–] Brianna@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Absolutely the best way to get answers to specific things. Avoids any paid blogs and questionable answers. Not to mention perfect for getting actual recommendations and reviews on things.

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

The only thing that's usually better is the Arch Linux wiki but you sadly can't use that for everything. :)

[–] generalpotato@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Here’s the thing, as much as I’m going to miss the convenience, I’m willing to suffer thru discomfort for not having that information readily available. LLMs now paired with web searches should be able to serve such content, and in the interim, I want something like Lemmy, a decentralized collection of instances with user generated content to grow, so that a single asshole ceo cannot ruin it for everybody else, particularly when the content in question is user generated and managed.