Let's two of them die together

Hi, I'm new here. Because of the bullshit with Reddit. Greetings fellow Lemmy people.

I've posted this elsewhere, but it bears repeating:

Just use ddg bangs if you use Duckduckgo and you can search reddit directly.

!reddit search term

or:

!r search term

It still picks up latest posts related to reddit, it just searches reddit directly instead of searching Bing's results. It's that simple.

You can even use a redirect extension like Libredirect in conjunction with this Duckduckgo feature to redirect your search to a privacy respecting frontend like redlib.

Reddit responded: "Only google pays us". The content is not yours. You built this of naive user base that just wanted to share now these fuckers are taking it as their entitlement. As early an reddit user - fuck that place, I'm still angry.

FUCK u/spez

That just means the dumbasses will get even less traffic. Way to shoot yourself in the foot, Spazz.

I wish we had a government that functioned. This shot is 100% antitrust. How is it that this shit is let fly.

Is there a downside? I’m confused.

this is just going to cause indexers to ignore robots.txt

Google just enshittifying even harder. Reddit results in Google searches are often old and anemic these days.

I used to want Reddit threads to show up in search results. Now I avoid them because they are so often a waste of time. More reason to use Duck Duck Go.

I wish Lemmy were searchable better. The search function actually works decently well, but it's not on the same level of actual search engines, it doesn't seem to look for related/similar terms and also relevancy doesn't seem right.

Ah, so Google signed a contract with the company that trained their AI to ... (checks notes) ... suggest putting glue on pizza.

Sounds like a perfect match.

IMO, another good reason to not use Google!

I work for a different sort of company that hosts some publicly available user generated content. And honestly the crawlers can be a serious engineering cost for us, and supporting them is simply not part of our product offering.

I can see how reddit users might have different expectations. But I just wanted to offer a perspective. (I'm not saying it's the right or best path.)

Bing it is then. I hate Microsoft with the intensity of thousand suns but bing is now my jam as long as this lasts.

Still seems to work on Kagi

Makes sense they've spent years curating other people's content and are now selling it..... Oh wait 😯.

With all the botting going on on Reddit, this whole Google AI deal makes me think of the recent paper that demonstrates that, as common sens would suggest, deep learning models collapse when successive generations are trained on the previous generations' output

Just like Reddit's changes last year, seems like a clear and reasonaly expected consequence of the 'our text is so valuable because AI' idea.

The web will probably continue to become more gated and more fragmented as a result of that, plus trying to get more control to force ads.