When people look up things on google, they specifically look for a solution posted on reddit, I know I do. Lemmy needs to be used as a way for people to solve problems, before it can take over what reddit is used for now. I’m staying on Lemmy because I like the idea of a functioning reddit alternative.
IMO that’s why we should all edit over and burn our data on our way out
That’s not effective at all, and not cool because:
Most of that data is in web archive anyway.
When you want to find a solution to some gaming or linux bug, or help with some project, it’s frustrating to see the user who posted the solution has deleted the comment.
I used to be the same but I’m going to be pretty devoted to looking for alternative sources of information. They’re definitely out there, just not as reliable/easy to find 👀
I have seen a lot of comments about looking up solution on reddit. I have never done that. Most problems has solutions on blogs, stackoverflow, YouTube, Wikipedia, other forums about the specific product, the brands own dokumentation and so on. I don’t know what I should use reddit for. Maybe reviews? But I use YouTube for that. What do you search for on reddit? Reddit has only been for entertainment or news (but newspapers and blogs can give me that too) for me.
Youtube “solutions” are useless. I’m not going to watch a friggen video, normally 10+ minutes, to hopefully maybe see if it answers my question.
Same with reviews. youtube reviews look all official because they’re a video, who knows. With reddit you get comments (that aren’t useless like youtube’s), and votes (with downvotes).
Reddit has been a kind of unofficial support channel for a lot of companies since it doubles as good pr to be visibly helping their community. For smaller companies it’s also a lot easier to spin up a subreddit and try to attract people there for a free marketing and support platform. I see quite a few tech companies operate in that way, but Ubiquiti is one of the bigger ones that first comes to mind.
With the rise of Discord, I think Reddit is losing some ground in that space much like individual forums before it, but Reddit still has a lot of historical data in it for troubleshooting things that aren’t as common.
When people look up things on google, they specifically look for a solution posted on reddit, I know I do. Lemmy needs to be used as a way for people to solve problems, before it can take over what reddit is used for now. I’m staying on Lemmy because I like the idea of a functioning reddit alternative.
For me, Reddit is now only a place to look up solutions, and not a group of communities to participate in.
The kind of solutions I would formerly post on Reddit, I will post on Lemmy instead. And I will participate in Lemmy communities as they pop up.
With time, as niche communities set up shop elsewhere, I expect I will have to search Reddit less and less.
Exactly. I spent years answering all sorts of questions. those comments are gone now and I will use lemmy from now on
And this is how we’ll grow the community; stop posting shit on Reddit. It’ll reduce visibility, sure…but that’s just how it’s gotta be.
I don’t know if I want this to become reddit 2.0. Maybe there’s another way. I’ll hang around and see what happens.
IMO that’s why we should all edit over and burn our data on our way out
That’s not effective at all, and not cool because:
I used to be the same but I’m going to be pretty devoted to looking for alternative sources of information. They’re definitely out there, just not as reliable/easy to find 👀
I’ve been wondering if there are good underground communities on the deepweb
Totally agree with this, Reddit still has a lot of “collective knowledge” stored there.
I wonder, is there an instance here that has tried porting over subrredits?
There’s a .zip of all of reddit that gets passed around for training LLMs. it’s around 90gb.
Not sure how to do the rest though as far as making a fork
I have seen a lot of comments about looking up solution on reddit. I have never done that. Most problems has solutions on blogs, stackoverflow, YouTube, Wikipedia, other forums about the specific product, the brands own dokumentation and so on. I don’t know what I should use reddit for. Maybe reviews? But I use YouTube for that. What do you search for on reddit? Reddit has only been for entertainment or news (but newspapers and blogs can give me that too) for me.
Youtube “solutions” are useless. I’m not going to watch a friggen video, normally 10+ minutes, to hopefully maybe see if it answers my question.
Same with reviews. youtube reviews look all official because they’re a video, who knows. With reddit you get comments (that aren’t useless like youtube’s), and votes (with downvotes).
Reddit has been a kind of unofficial support channel for a lot of companies since it doubles as good pr to be visibly helping their community. For smaller companies it’s also a lot easier to spin up a subreddit and try to attract people there for a free marketing and support platform. I see quite a few tech companies operate in that way, but Ubiquiti is one of the bigger ones that first comes to mind.
With the rise of Discord, I think Reddit is losing some ground in that space much like individual forums before it, but Reddit still has a lot of historical data in it for troubleshooting things that aren’t as common.