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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I’m sure it’s a pipe dream atm, but I’m just hoping fediverse will have a unified method to look up archived posts across all platforms. Unfortunately, it’s probably very difficult to set up because indexing would take forever given the exponentially increasing amount of content. I used to use Reddit to look up a lot of video game info/memes. Reddit’s search engine was garbage, but at least I could find info from older game guides from 10+ years ago. My main concern is that a lot of indie game devs are directing people to talk about their games on Discord, which is terrible for archiving information.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

With Google getting increasingly worse, reddit is usually where I find what I'm looking for in a sea of blog spam. And while I personally think Discord is absolutely great as a chat plaform it is nowhere near close as being a reddit replacement. Everything posted in there is silo'd and not searchable from outside.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I think Google would still mostly prefer to provide the most relevant results. (When they aren’t trying to scrape data and keep you from ever actually visiting those sites). But SEO is always an arms race.

I’m hopeful that search engines will be able to leverage some AI soon to start surfacing higher quality results.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I started using AI chats to find info these days because of how bad google is at googling

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