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Reddit habit is hard to break.
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this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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It is a shame because there is so much knowledge on reddit that can be lost. Whenever I had a problem I would append reddit to my google search. Bug fixes for games, advice on purchases etc.
perhaps some lunatic out there will try preserving some of that in the fediverse, although I guess it will be nigh impossible to separate the quality content from the mountains of shit
edit: of course they're already on it: https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/142l1i0/archiveteam_has_saved_over_108_billion_reddit/
Yeah I've seen that. My only hope is that it is easily searchable. Not much help for most for the data to be archived in a non-accessible format.
well maybe they could just put it on one read only lemmy instance, restrict access to anything that isn't a crawler and let google/bing/duckduckgo solve that problem for us
I know it's kinda irreplaceable. I think I will stop mindless browsing Reddit but will still go there occasionally when I'm looking for specific advice.
I'd be interested to know from someone more tech-savvy whether googling advice, and then clicking on the cached version, still counts as viewing reddit. Because I'd ideally still like to append reddit to my google searches without giving them ad views.
AKA if someone monetises advice given for free, we should be able to freely access it.
This will be how I use it as well. Reddit usually tends to have the most concise, up-to-date answers for a lot of questions that I have about most my hobbies. Especially video games.
That will hopefully change, but it was such a good way to basically guarantee I found the information I actually wanted.
Me too, it will be difficult to fix that fucking bug that just you and one lost redditor has experienced lol
Those were all the best groups. I've seen a few of knowledge-based reddits setting to read-only instead of private, so they're still searchable.