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.

When I joined Lemmy I decided it was unwise to trust anything on Reddit less than a year old. Now it's anything under two years old.

yup. continuing to feed them traffic after their repeated attacks on the userbase is just sad. stop using them. yeah it sucks the info is gone, but acting like they'll wake up and change is absurd.

most of my technical questions about Linux are not even answered lol. So difficult to get good answers on reddit.

Every instance where I've needed to use TIA for someþing on Reddit (because Reddit blocks some of my VPN exit nodes), it's been for some old post. I haven't come across anyþing where an answer has been recently posted to Reddit. Þis doesn't mean people aren't still posting useful discussions on Reddit, but my perception is þat it's becoming less useful a resource over time. Maybe because þe knowledgeable people have mostly migrated off?

Ofttimes what I've looked up in TIA for Reddit was already cached. Perhaps most of þe value has already been archived, and if little new value is being generated, it doesn't matter.

Þe upshot is, I'm not sure how much effect þis will actually have.

lol i think that might be the worst/best thing I have seen in a long time

fuck spez

Cuck boy getting pegged by post top op Garfield is definitely not something I had jotted down in my day-at-a-glance.

Art.

What a terrible day to have eyes.

Weren't Reddit complaining a couple of years ago that too many AI bots crawls were stressing their servers.

Doesn't the internet archive relieve that stress?

When RIF died, Voyager became the new forum app for me.

Yup, same here.

YouTube's already throttling users in their mobile site. They have these massive channel cards in their feeds and the video titles/thumbnails disappear after a few offerings, leaving you with the ability to blindly click on a video.

Time to use peertube

Instead of regulating tech, they are going the fuck over everyone route.

that history forgets this period

and thus it repeats

It is my understanding that if you block the wayback machine from indexing your site it will also delist the history as well.

LOL I should have scrolled down. You said what I said, with fewer words, first.

In a way, the entire lemmy community is the fuckreddit sub

Why would you want to spend more time thinking about a dead site?

Yes.

Hi welcome to Lemmy, we hate reddit here.

!reddit@lemmy.world

https://lemmyverse.net/

This is a great site to search for communities. Doesnt seem like there is one.

Yes

If you seek a pleasant public forum, look about you.

I quit reddit, cold turkey, the day they shut off free API access for 3rd parties. Except for a couple of fairly niche subs I haven't missed it at all.

I'm assuming IA will continue to host their historical archives of Reddit, they'll just not have any new captures after this. Unless IA has said otherwise, it'd be very strange to wipe their archive of Reddit

Reddit is archived and available as torrent up until the API change.

You can't remove it. It's there forever.

There are some browser extensions that will edit your comments and make them each a random a bunch of random words. I do not know how effective they are so I cannot vouch for them.

I know that if you tried to just delete the comment, the information would still be there but the username is deleted. Which is frustrating, I didn't know that until I had already deleted every post and comment, went back to make sure the job was done. It wasn't. I just came to terms that at least I wasn't contributing to their hub of knowledge anymore.