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Reddit will block the Internet Archive (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 80 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Searching anywhere in general is getting shittier and shittier by day. Web searches are riddled with hallucinated AI generated garbage pages. Finding the right answer for difficult problems is getting worse and worse. We are sliding rapidly into Idiocracy.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Not to mention so many projects putting their support in walled garden chat services like Discord that you can’t even search via search engine. Even if you can figure out who asked the right question and when, you have to trawl through a sea of inane garbled chat to get to the developer/expert response.

    Specialised topic forums really need to make a resurgence but I doubt they will.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    Not to mention so many projects putting their support in walled garden chat services like Discord that you can’t even search via search engine.

    Seeing this happen has been one of the saddest most desperate parts about watching the internet dying.

    It was obvious what was going to happen years ago, that didn't stop people from acting like I was a reactionary foolish cynic when I voiced concern about this though.

    Seriously FUCK Discord (and Reddit).

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    We are sliding rapidly into Idiocracy.

    Buddy, we are already there. “Ow, my balls!” Would be high-brow tv these days.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    "Ow, my balls!" was already a thing in the 90s, on BIG time tv. It was called america's funniest videos.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Ah, back when it was “America’s Funniest Home Videos”. Yes, they pioneered the crotch-smashing format. I’m just saying, shit like Real Housewives makes getting hit in the balls look like Masterpiece Theatre.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The two things that just make me boggle, specifically about that, was just how filthy bob saget was (sort of like robin williams) in his comedy outside of the tv roles, and apparently how much straight up home-made porn was sent in to that show.

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