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I went searching for something today and instinctually clicked on a reddit link. Fortunately the sub was dark for the protest anyway, but it's crazy how ingrained in me it is to go to reddit for everything.

Unfortunately now we're going to have to get used to clicking on those clickbait tech articles like "TOP 10 FACEBOOK ALTERNATIVES 2023" to find information, and weed out the crappy blogs.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Fr, it is very hard to break. I instinctively add "reddit" to the end of every search.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This speaks to how bad Google has gotten IMO - I do it too.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

I know, it’s so much harder to find answers to anything past very simple answers with Google these days. After the blackout, I’ll probably do far less jumping straight to Reddit, but I feel like it’s still going to be unavoidable sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

After the subreddits go un-dark I will probably still use this for searching until there's a LLM set-up to "replace" google searching (which Bing is Still Not, imo).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Agreed, I use reddit for a lot of my research be it for purchasing decisions or other random questions I think of during the day.

Unrelated but we have similar usernames :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Hahaha that is amazing! I was going to go for my cryptic variation of '1bluxjay' only to realize that I can have the actual username. Been a long time since I've been able to do that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, even if I quit using reddit as a community tool the information value is huge. When something breaks on a niche subject they can be the only easy to find source.