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this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2023
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Yes, this is the problem. Search engines used to be a way to find stuff. They slowly evolved into more and more effective platforms for monetizing internet users, meaning the only content you can effectively find now is content that's selling something (or perhaps content that is selling you).
Breaking out of that bubble can reveal that content that isn't built for selling is still there. It's just like you said: it's gone underground. Not by choice but because the ground got moved.
Yeah, hopefully the explosion of Lemmy and Mastrodon leads to more of the message board level of the internet, only without having to maintain five gazillion accounts and checking them daily for new content. That era was pretty nice and was indexed well by search engines.
That was poetic!