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Uhhhhh…who thought that was going to be a bright idea? Google is probably the single biggest traffic draw for Reddit.
Especially since reddit search itself has always been laughably broken.
That’s what I thought this was about halfway through the headline.
“They’ve made it this long without a functional search.”
I’m pretty sure the admin response to lack of search was “just use Google.”
I also recall that, but it’s just another instance of Reddit contradicting Reddit.
Or more realistically: Reddit from 10 years ago contradicting Reddit from today.
For what its worth the reddit search function seemed to have functioned much better a decade ago.
The amount of spam and just downright completely irrelevant results that showed up regularly in searches there the last few years has been ridiculous. I think it changed around the time they took away being able to see how many upvotws and downvotes a comment had totally, which I do still think is a real shame they took that away.
Yeah Reddit search was fine on the original old Reddit UI, it was around the time the native app released that it really started to shit itself and not return any results and just say try again later
Did Elon secretly buy Reddit?
Funny thing, spez expressed in interviews that he liked Leon’s philosophy behind a lot of decision over Twitter.
So there’s a lot of truth to that
Leon schmuck
Noel Musk: “HERP DERP I’M AN OXYMORON!”
Greedy Pigboy: “WE OXYMORONS STAND TOGETHER! please notice me senpai Enol Musk…”
No, Steve just has no personality of his own so he mimics other people to fake it. He’s latched on to Elon that way.
That’s literally been life for me for so long when I’m looking up quite a bit of different things. “Blah blah reddit”
They seem to intend to make the content on Reddit more disposable, which is a feat unto itself. Technical forum usage will precipitously drop if no one can find it. Or they just endlessly repost it? What an odd decision.
They want the data all to themselves because they think it’s AI training gold
Tbh it probably is. I don’t use Reddit much anymore for discussion or news or memes, but when I need the answer to a problem or an opinion on a product or service from actual people instead of an overly long review listicle, Reddit search results are still very useful.
I agree. Not only do they have the relevant content, it already has a numerical evaluation by a relevant user base.
Well they lost all of my data , tell you that much.
Where’s my share, reddit?
If they cut Google, I will literally never go to Reddit again. I probably hit a couple pages a week from Google search, and that’s it, but that will be zero pages if they are truly this dumb.
Looks like it’s back to game forums. ChatGPT has alslo mostly overtaken Stack Overflow for me. Reddit was just a nice to have additional source.
Not to mention the only way to go back and find something on their site. Their in house search bar is a useless piece of junk. Back when I would use reddit, I would open up google if I had to find something in reddit.
That search is the only reason a lot of people end up on reddit. This won’t end well for reddit.
That’s Steve emulating Elon again though, he’s trying to wreck other people’s toys because they’re brats.
I have a feeling this is why they’ll 180 the decision if they tried. Probably wouldn’t even last a month. And that’s being generous.
It’s a catch 22.
Want search engines to see your data to serve it to users looking for your content? Needs to be open.
Want to stop businesses from “profiting” from viewing your data? gotta block all access.
You literally can’t have it both ways. This is a binary choice. People are going to “steal” the data anyway, not that reddit should own ANYTHING posted by users, ever.
What if every news site blocked reddit referrals unless reddit paid $1 per click or someshit? It’s the same thing. Reddit is an advertising company, nothing more. They need the clicks.
Companies need to understand what I was told as a kid. Whatever you post on the public internet, is there for anyone to find and use. Trying to fight scraping means preventing your users from accessing the website as well
Look they’ve already cut off free API access. Here’s some other ideas from the Muskrat playbook:
Maybe change the name to P.com
Change the logo to ₱ (surely the Mexicans won’t mind that you’re using the Peso symbol).
Hmm, why not also charge money to get a blue checkmark by your Reddit username to be a verified Redditor? or maybe call them P-ers?
Oh, how about charging new users $1 to use your platform?
The peso symbol is $, and it was it before it ever was the dollar symbol.
Maybe it’s somebody else’s peso?
Apparently Philippines, introduced when they were an American colony and USA thought that the $ sign was to be only theirs and Spain’s.
More like charge money to be called a verified user without actually being verified.
They must’ve noticed an uptick in Google traffic. I’ve stopped using reddit for fun and only as a means to find solutions through search engine.
Starting to wish yahoo answers would come back.
Google has started adding a Reddit search filter to some searches.
That’s because it’s so impossible to find anything I’d use on a normal Google search that you have to add “Reddit” to your search to find anything relevant.
Of course, post-API debacle, a fair amount of the responses you’d have needed are deleted, but ya know…
Starting to wish yahoo answers would come back.
If only we knew how good we had it back then.
“The more you tighten your grasp, the more systems will slip through your fingers.”
Ah, the tao of internet
The most valuable part of reddit is always in the comments, as it has over time replaced forums to become the biggest central repository of (mostly relatively high quality) human generated English text data on the internet in discussion format, and even knowing this, reddit has never attempted to have a remotely decent way to search for information in the comments, as post titles can be incredibly vague or irrelevant.
This is the reason why using Google or another external search engine for reddit, because it is the ONLY way to find information in the comments.
If reddit does block Google crawlers, then it would make sense for Google to start prioritizing alternate source of open, high quality human generated data in their search engine optimization, and that would hopefully be the various Lemmy instances, which could be a strong driving factor in Lemmy’s growth in the future.
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this comment is aimed at those future “just passing through” visitors, who are still on the fence with regards to the fediverse.
any internet power user will know, and be able to tell you that the internet feels wrong as of late. everything that you try to use is slightly broken for some reason. why is it becoming harder to use basic services that we took for granted 5 years ago?
unfortunately, the internet is changing once again, and it’s time to pick a side.
you can side with big corpo, stay in their walled ecosystems, and embrace enshittification.
or, you can side with the fediverse, break out of your silo, and take control of your own means of content participation.
the choice is yours.
if you like following concepts or “things” (reddit-style), then try here: https://join-lemmy.org/
or, if you prefer following individuals or “trends” (twitter-style), then try here: https://joinmastodon.org/
Haha fuck the corponet!
No it can’t. Which is funny
I think now is the best time to extract information from Reddit because we won’t be able to look up answers to niche problems with their shitty search function
google.com bro not 🦆 🦆 🏌️
Like anyone who knows how to DuckDcukGo still uses fucking Reddit
Lemmy: while you are at it… could you unblock us? Every search for anything on lemmy results in Lemmy Kilmister.
To be fair, lemmy is a metal god who deserves top result lol
Use “site:lemmy.world” or any other website, without the quotes.
Fuck Reddit. Can’t say I miss that shithole.
Ngl I miss the early days with much fewer users. I loved it.
Now it’s a pile of social media trash. I still browse it on my PC cuz I’m weak like that, but I managed to dodge it on my mobile.
Lol
Literally the only time I use reddit now that my 3rd party app got fucked by spez is when I Google a problem and reddit pops up as the answer.
Will I ever go to reddit and search for my issue? Hell no because their search function is absolutely useless.
I don’t even use Reddit for that anymore. If I’ve got a problem there’s plenty of forums I can consult for help, or I can post the question here on Lemmy, on the fediverse, on Bluesky, you get the idea.
I managed to get a Windows XP virtual machine working with GPU passthrough thanks to a forum MattKC (tech youtuber who does repairs and reverse engineering) had set up and posted on. Even when I used Reddit, there wasn’t much info on getting BIOS-only versions of Windows working.
Did somebody make a backup of all reddit posts? In case Reddit comes into total cesshole, I’d like those posts that contain valuable information after self destruction of said site
Yes they did
Who is they and is it publicly accessible?
I think /r/datahoarder did
I bet there are multiple copies of various depth by various groups including reddit themselves,. But how they will use it, wether they share it we cant really know.
Large chunks are contained within dataset for ai, we may be able to obtain or reverse engineer those.
The internet archive waybackmachine is probably the best most valid source for the public for now.
How do you access old archived reddit content? I’ve seen downloads but wondered if there is something more easily accessible.
This feels like a fairly desperate attempt to get Google to pay them something
Ding ding ding ding!! It’s telling that this announcement came out after it was disclosed that Google pays Apple 18-20 BILLION A YEAR to be the default search engine on IOS. Spez is trying to tap into that.
