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Many searches are useless without including reddit.com
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Instead of using a search engine or reddit, have you tried asking the real and friendly people here for an answer?
I did this to prove a point. You can check it out, crushed peanut or flaxseed seem popular.
https://lemmy.world/post/4349618
The answers on reddit didn't magically appear out of thin air. Instead of lamenting about the lack of answers on Lemmy, asking here will get you a good answer real quick.
The issue isn't that reddit has all the answers the issue is that search engines like Google show you the websites that have been best optimized for search engines, not the most helpful ones.
Ending searches with 'reddit' works because reddit is the largest group of forums on the web & forums typically are full of people knowledgeable on a specific topic that have good answers.
The quality of returned search results IMO has degraded appreciably. When I search the same question as you posted the entire first page of results is long winded listicals. There's a lot of seemingly helpful & succinct answers in that post you made but no one searching Google will find it if they enter the exact title.
People who write on reddit dont produce the info themselves instead they would have also reffered to some book / article (mostly articles) thus reading the articles will give you more info about the topic .... just remember before reading the blog/article see the author and his/her qualification , most articles give a brief info about the writer at the top ... just make sure that person is genuinely knowledgeable on the topic .... also avoid AI written articles
People on forums like Reddit absolutely can produce their own info. Nowadays it's more often that those articles are based on posts written on sites like reddit.