I went searching for something today and instinctually clicked on a reddit link. Fortunately the sub was dark for the protest anyway, but it’s crazy how ingrained in me it is to go to reddit for everything.

Unfortunately now we’re going to have to get used to clicking on those clickbait tech articles like “TOP 10 FACEBOOK ALTERNATIVES 2023” to find information, and weed out the crappy blogs.

  • farados@vlemmy.netEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • fiah@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      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/

      ArchiveTeam has been archiving Reddit posts for a while now, but we are running out of time. So far, we have archived 10.81 billion links, with 150 million to go.
      Recent news of the Reddit API cost changes will force many of the top 3rd party Reddit apps to shut down. This will not only affect how people use Reddit, but it will also cause issues with many subreddit moderation bots which rely on the API to function. Many subreddits have agreed to shut down for 48 hours on June 12th, while others will be gone indefinitely unless this issue is resolved. We are archiving Reddit posts so that in the event that the API cost change is never addressed, we can still access posts from those closed subreddits.

      • farados@vlemmy.netEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • fiah@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          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

    • elonspez@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Fortunately they’ve already been utilized as the training data of a bunch of LLMs lol

    • gifferqqq@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • lavender dreams@waveform.socialEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        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.

      • hadrian@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        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.

    • FujiTive@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Me too, it will be difficult to fix that fucking bug that just you and one lost redditor has experienced lol