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Don't reply "just Google it" (lemmy.zip)
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It is clear that the signal to noise ratio of the WWW is getting worse. It's much harder to find good content when using a good old search engine. And if it's good it is usually hosted on Reddit or Stackexchange.

So remember, even if it's easy too Google something (well, it isn't nowadays), we want to create a fediverse of good content that helps people (I hope). So, it's always better to write a real answer if you have the time and energy. Please help boost the SNR and reverse the AI fueled information degradation loop.

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[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 32 points 4 days ago

Old Reddit threads where the answer giver deleted their account & all their comments.

[-] hono4kami@slrpnk.net 40 points 4 days ago

That's why when I left reddit I don't delete my posts (even if those posts suck)

Bonus:

a screenshot of deleted reddit comment with a reply thanking the parent commenter

[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 4 points 4 days ago

I can kinda get the sentiment. I left during the protests too and I can see people wanting to damage Reddit, which is also completely deserved. Of course now Reddit is respecting the right to your comments even less and scrapes them for Google's LLM models.

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Eh. I torched all my comments when I left (and posts, too) and I've said before and still maintain that I'm not sorry in the slightest.

If anything wants to know anything I said that was relevant to anything (and not the usual cavalcade of political bickering) they can come here and ask. I'll gladly retype any of it.

Fuck reddit. The quicker we can dispose of it and just rip that Band-Aid off, the better.

[-] Deebster@infosec.pub 9 points 4 days ago

Or scrambled all of their posts after APIgate (or whatever we're calling it). Perhaps they came here, which means OP is right in saying we can be a new source of useful answers.

[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 1 points 4 days ago

I'm not sure if Lemmy or other Fediverse posts even get indexed by any of the search engines. I've yet to see any in a search result.

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

They absolutely do. Not only Lemmy posts in general, but I have found my own content completely unintentionally on searches several times.

[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 1 points 4 days ago

I guess it's a matter of lack of good posts that could become the desired search result then. Time will tell if we ever get to that point.

[-] Deebster@infosec.pub 1 points 4 days ago

The way that all the copies of the content link to the original post should be some kind of SEO hack. I wonder if it's triggering specific rules in search engines that detect it and downrank it as cheating.

[-] datavoid@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I don't feel bad about wiping my account, as almost everything on it was useless.

Also I was pissed off at the time, and my goal was to make more people dislike going on Reddit.

this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2024
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