reddit front page used to be all memes and humour
...now it's all US bizarro world politics and weird interpersonal sexual TMI stuff.
Reddit is taking over Google
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#32Great, so now spammers will target Reddit that much more. Give a year, few months even to see way worse Reddit content overall.
The solution is federated search, federated forums.
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#33I just want a little plonk button under each result so I can blacklist sites that I am not interested in.
You can check https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist
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#34The only problem is bad advice that can come up quite often on Reddit. There are various subreddits where young people ask for advice and other young people with no experience are giving advice that might influence others negatively. Otherwise, Reddit is great for technical stuff and niche community communication.
> There are various subreddits where young people ask for advice and other young people with no experience are giving advice that might influence others negatively. I've yet to see a relationships advice thread where the top comment isn't "get divorced immediately" Which is scary, because these people are taking OP's comment at face value and only hearing one side of the story.
Worked for me!
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#35The only problem is bad advice that can come up quite often on Reddit. There are various subreddits where young people ask for advice and other young people with no experience are giving advice that might influence others negatively. Otherwise, Reddit is great for technical stuff and niche community communication.
If there's one thing I learned from reddit, it's how not to build a wooden deck lol.
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#36reddit front page used to be all memes and humour ...now it's all US bizarro world politics and weird interpersonal sexual TMI stuff.
You can make it a lot better by taking some time to remove a lot of the default subreddits and adding content you like.
I think that's pretty much why I created my account years ago: to get rid of politics on the front page.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm fairly certain that pr companies figured reddit out about 5 years ago. It's still pretty good for niche products and hobbies, but as a recommendation machine, is pretty garbage.
Have any subreddit mods been exposed as paid corporate shills? I'm a bit surprised that I haven't noticed signs of that for subreddits with an obvious commercial angle. Maybe moderating is such a thankless slog that brands can't pay people to do it ;)
Have any subreddit mods been exposed as paid corporate shills?
Please don't misunderstand. The challenges and problems with content and moderation at both of those places are very real. But, relative to the most of rest of the internet, (a low bar to clear) they have coped very well.
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#38I just want a little plonk button under each result so I can blacklist sites that I am not interested in.
I recently switched to Kagi, and this feature ensures that I can never go back to Google or DDG.
Not having pinterest show up for every search I do is incredible (but should really be a basic feature of any search engine...).
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm fairly certain that pr companies figured reddit out about 5 years ago. It's still pretty good for niche products and hobbies, but as a recommendation machine, is pretty garbage.
I would state that I have very little in the way of good objective experience with Reddit opinions. But at the same time, I have zero good experience with everything else. Reddit comments are genuinely better, but not by much! One significant problem I find with Reddit users is that they tend to be unable to see past their purchase. Hordes of fanboyism. Even more Stockholm syndrome.
One significant problem I find with Reddit users
is that they tend to be unable to see past their
purchase. Hordes of fanboyism.
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#40When doing such searches I don't actually want Reddit specifically, my real goal is just to find information that is (supposedly) from a human discussion between individuals, as opposed to conclusory "articles" or "best of 20XX" or "top 10" etc. In other words, I don't want Google to elevate Reddit, I want them to classify site-types and allow me to filter results for "forums", which would include the long-tail of le…
Just putting "forum" at the end of your query does a reasonable job of that. I've been doing a lot of searching on niche air rifle stuff on forums recently and it worked well for me.