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How do people find good information on the internet these days? (self.technology)

submitted 1 year ago by catch22 to c/[email protected]

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It used to be that you would do a search on a relevant subject and get blog posts, forums posts, and maybe a couple of relevant companies offering the product or service. (And if you wanted more information on said company you could give them a call and actually talk to a real person about said service) You could even trust amazon and yelp reviews. Now searches have been completely taken over by Forbes top 10 lists, random affiliate link click through aggregators that copy and paste each others work, review factories that will kill your competitors and boost your product stars, ect.... It seems like the internet has gotten soooo much harder to use, just because you have to wade through all the bullshit. It's no wonder people switch to reddit and lemmy style sites, in a way it mirrors a little what kind of information you used to be able to garner from the internet in it's early days. What do people do these days to find genuine information about products or services?

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lemmings are going to crucify me for this, but here goes anyway...

site:www.reddit.com

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fair. One day that recommendation will end up being a lemmy instance instead.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I mean, technically it should work if you use an instance that is federated with most other instances.

E.g.:

For some reason, it doesn't work for lemmy.ca, indexing may be disabled. So YMMV.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

An idea would be if they allow the option to choose an instance of your choice and seach through there with just "lemmy"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Perfectly understandable imo. Reddit has been around for ages and has a huge backlog of information that users aggregated. Can't really expect Lemmy to match that after only (somewhat) taking off not that long ago. And i won't fault anyone for using this accumulated knowledge, i can't quite avoid it myself.

For me the big question is where people contribute new things. And considering how reddit is behaving, Lemmy/the Fediverse is the far better place to do so.