These days, I only ever use Reddit to find answers and to comment in one small community I probably could not live without. I’ve drastically cut down on my Reddit usage since whole API debacle.
(Don’t ask about trying to move that community to Lemmy. Already had someone ask that repeatedly the last time I mentioned this. They’ve polled their users, and they’re not moving.)
Reddit used to be a pretty cool thing. And it still has a lot of good information. But I always feel dirty when I do resort to searching Reddit for information.
Aaron Swartz would be appalled.
I feel like Aaron 100% would have backed Lemmy.
(Edit: Not that I or anyone can speak for him, obviously.)
Reddit makes me feel dirty.
Quora is just plain vomit.
yahoo answers shutdown ruined it all.
Just go straight to Wikipedia.
For local information, such as what is the best inexpensive insurance in your city, for example, Wiki can’t answer.
I’ve had more luck with local facebook groups or word of mouth than the internet, for this stuff, in the recent years. This and some group chats are pretty much the only reasons I still have a Meta account…
wikivoyage
For the record, the real trick is to add “site:reddit.com”. But as the site decays over time that will sadly become less useful.
I really think they are going to start requiring logins or the app to view most content. That seems to be what they are going toward with the “unreviewed content” thing.
old reddit
For now you can use RedReader to circumvent their app.
100%. To be honest I don’t even use this “trick” anymore myself because like 60% of the links are inaccessible now.
It’s incredibly sad that they destroyed such a great resource, that place was like the Wikipedia of opinions.
Is Quora good now?
Hard to tell when the bar has lowered so far.
No.
Has it ever been?
Not that I can recall.
when Yahoo answers existed, yes (i think).
Lol no I think quota is beyond redemption.
I think quora is worse then reddit both are bad tho the answers are really really bad
Quora is AWFUL.
Agree
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I have never in my life got any useful information out of Quora.
In fact, it’s so bad that when I mistakenly click on a Quora link, and I have some time to kill, I read the page to have a solid laugh at all the stupid answers in there that gets promoted.
I think you can filter out Quora results using uBlock, but you need to Google it so, good luck haha
Came here to say pretty much this. I will add that one time years ago I went back and gave a correct answer after I had found it. The next time I looked it wasn’t displayed. At that point I determined that quora was a scam site.
Yes this is the only reason I still have a Reddit account
As asked already, why do you feel the need for an account for this? It changes nothing. You’ve surely misunderstood something, you keeping an account has absolutely no relation to any of this.
Not OP but every so often when I click on a Reddit link from a search result, Reddit doesn’t actually let me read the thread unless I login
I believe it happens on mobile b/c they are trying to force people to use their godforsaken app. Clicking desktop view bypasses the tomfoolery.
Use old.reddit.com
It’s the only reason I bothered patching my former app of choice.
REDLIB.
Why do you need a Reddit account? Deleted mine, noticed no difference.
I like to use drug related subreddits that you can’t view without logging in
They block VPN users most of the time nowadays if you’re not logged in.
Fuck their little “network security” bullshit!
That’s weird considering they still run an Onion site: https://www.reddittorjg6rue252oqsxryoxengawnmo46qy4kyii5wtqnwfj4ooad.onion/
posts of twitter and tells us to use quora
This is Bluesky!
Same smelly shit.
Just use: https://search.marginalia.nu/ It crawls forums, wikis and other human generated content.
No SEO garbage, scammers or AI. (mostly) It’s still very much an alpha.Nice find! I will switch.
I got tired of being banned by reddit. The last time I was there for over a year before some shithead mod wrecked it for me. Not going back, fuck reddit.
I got banned too, because I posted pictures of Nazis on r/beholdthemasterrace, and they said I was harassing Nazis.
So Reddit supports Nazis.
Someone has it in for me over there. I have been temporarily banned twice in the last several months. It’s insane. I think I am done with that site.
I hate that google has become a verb
I agree.
I hate to tell you that it’s been a verb for nearly two decades now?
And i have been hating it all this time!
Recently i heard someone tell me that they just googled ‘lower decks’ on amazon prime…
Google the company doesn’t deserve to be a verb
Instead of reddit you can use stackexchange but in the end you don’t get your answer
not only that but we get a fresh look at why we were wrong and shouldn’t have asked the question in the first place
