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Re: The Reddit blackout has left Google barren and full of holes

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Post by AndrewKemendo »

hourago wrote: post #75

The problem is that the open internet is dying. What used to be blogs and forums now is Reddit. Tens of thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of communities that had their own wiki, blog, forum, ... are now reduced to be a Subreddit. The Internet has become fragile. One service goes down and everybody suffers. If the top 10 services went down most people would think that there is no Internet at all. E-Mail is the last s…

Honestly I’d LOVE to revert to the old phpBB or vBulletin forum days

There’s literally no reason why not and it’s never been cheaper to run

Re: The Reddit blackout has left Google barren and full of holes

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Post by ffpip »

takoid wrote: post #52
OptionX wrote: post #18

Protip: If you really need to see the Reddit page on a private'd sub remember Google has a cached page feature.

Where did Google move the cached page feature? I can’t find it in the three dot menu for search results anymore.

https://files.catbox.moe/ue5o3c.jpg

Re: The Reddit blackout has left Google barren and full of holes

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Post by dale_glass »

hourago wrote: post #75

The problem is that the open internet is dying. What used to be blogs and forums now is Reddit. Tens of thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of communities that had their own wiki, blog, forum, ... are now reduced to be a Subreddit. The Internet has become fragile. One service goes down and everybody suffers. If the top 10 services went down most people would think that there is no Internet at all. E-Mail is the last s…

It's getting easier to counteract though.

Software development is easier than ever, CPU power and bandwidth are quite cheap, and there are working federated structures like Mastodon.

There's no reason why Reddit couldn't be turned into a federated system as well, in fact it almost is one as it is. Eg, just like on Mastodon servers can choose whether to interact with each other, on Reddit it's not uncommon to get auto-banned from somewhere if you post in a subreddit they dislike.

Re: The Reddit blackout has left Google barren and full of holes

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Post by fsckboy »

hourago wrote: post #75

The problem is that the open internet is dying. What used to be blogs and forums now is Reddit. Tens of thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of communities that had their own wiki, blog, forum, ... are now reduced to be a Subreddit. The Internet has become fragile. One service goes down and everybody suffers. If the top 10 services went down most people would think that there is no Internet at all. E-Mail is the last s…

> One service goes down and everybody suffers

"everybody"'s boycott brought this service down, the suffering is completely self inflicted, and people can end it whenever they want.

Re: The Reddit blackout has left Google barren and full of holes

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Post by desro »

reaperducer wrote: post #59
simion314 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For me YouTube is always on the top, instead of the text pages where I can read the answer in a few seconds Google pushes me their video platform, probably in the hope of making money. I am logged in so I do not understand how those geniuses working at Google would think that videos in a language I do not know might be more relevant then text content.

For me YouTube is always on the top, instead of the text pages where I can read the answer in a few seconds Google pushes me their video platform, probably in the hope of making money. To be fair, i have the same problem with Duck. I wish i could backlist sites from my search results. YouTube and Pinterest are not helpful for the things i look for.

You can blacklist domains and adjust the rank of sites in your results on Kagi.com

Not affiliated, just a very satisfied customer

Re: The Reddit blackout has left Google barren and full of holes

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Post by judge2020 »

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #91
hourago wrote: post #75

The problem is that the open internet is dying. What used to be blogs and forums now is Reddit. Tens of thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of communities that had their own wiki, blog, forum, ... are now reduced to be a Subreddit. The Internet has become fragile. One service goes down and everybody suffers. If the top 10 services went down most people would think that there is no Internet at all. E-Mail is the last s…

Honestly I’d LOVE to revert to the old phpBB or vBulletin forum days There’s literally no reason why not and it’s never been cheaper to run

Few users of reddit communities are dedicated enough to that community to be willing to use it via an app that doesn't aggregate their interests into one doom-scrollable UI, much less donate to a site for hosting costs to keep it afloat.

Re: The Reddit blackout has left Google barren and full of holes

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Post by takoid »

ffpip wrote: post #92
takoid wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where did Google move the cached page feature? I can’t find it in the three dot menu for search results anymore.

https://files.catbox.moe/ue5o3c.jpg

I saw that screenshot here: https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/150912/did-googl...

However, this option is hidden for me on every result I’ve checked. Pages posted several years ago, pages posted within the past couple months, Reddit pages, StackOverflow pages, etc. Even pages from Google itself are missing a cached page option for me.

Re: The Reddit blackout has left Google barren and full of holes

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Post by f0e4c2f7 »

Have been running into this the last few days and have realized just how much I use reddit in search results even though I don't visit the frontpage anymore.

Lot of pasting links into archive.org.

I've also been using Bing Chat to ask it what reddit thinks since it has most of reddit indexed.

Concerning though because it makes me feel like quite a lot of important information is rather fragile.

You can imagine various ways this data might be lost forever, I wish it felt more durable.

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