Comment on ‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google

just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• db2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Especially since reddit search itself has always been laughably broken.

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  • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s what I thought this was about halfway through the headline.

    “They’ve made it this long without a functional search.”

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    • anonionfinelyminced@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I'm pretty sure the admin response to lack of search was "just use Google."

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      • ericisshort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I also recall that, but it’s just another instance of Reddit contradicting Reddit.

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• billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Did Elon secretly buy Reddit?

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  • hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Funny thing, spez expressed in interviews that he liked Leon’s philosophy behind a lot of decision over Twitter.

    So there’s a lot of truth to that

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    • darkdemize@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Leon schmuck

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      • Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Melon Tusk

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    • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yep. That’s when I quit reddit

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    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Probably working towards his own No Money Miracle.

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  • db2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No, Steve just has no personality of his own so he mimics other people to fake it. He’s latched on to Elon that way.

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• EdibleFriend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s literally been life for me for so long when I’m looking up quite a bit of different things. “Blah blah reddit”

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  • gullible@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They seem to intend to make the content on Reddit more disposable, which is a feat unto itself. Technical forum usage will precipitously drop if no one can find it. Or they just endlessly repost it? What an odd decision.

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• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not to mention the only way to go back and find something on their site. Their in house search bar is a useless piece of junk. Back when I would use reddit, I would open up google if I had to find something in reddit.

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• BassTurd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If they cut Google, I will literally never go to Reddit again. I probably hit a couple pages a week from Google search, and that’s it, but that will be zero pages if they are truly this dumb.

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• ubermeisters@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They want the data all to themselves because they think it’s AI training gold

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  • Shyfer@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Tbh it probably is. I don’t use Reddit much anymore for discussion or news or memes, but when I need the answer to a problem or an opinion on a product or service from actual people instead of an overly long review listicle, Reddit search results are still very useful.

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    • Jerkface@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I agree. Not only do they have the relevant content, it already has a numerical evaluation by a relevant user base.

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    • RGB3x3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But it’s not even their data. They lose nothing from AI models.

      It’s ALL user-generated content. What harm comes to reddit the corporation by allowing AI to train off the user’s activity?

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      • MBM@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Why give it away for free when you can sell it?

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      • ubermeisters@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It is theirs though; that was the cost of having a “free” service to use…

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    • ubermeisters@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well they lost all of my data , tell you that much.

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• saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Looks like it’s back to game forums. ChatGPT has alslo mostly overtaken Stack Overflow for me. Reddit was just a nice to have additional source.

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• PixxlMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Spez is going full Musk. It’s actually insane. Like… Holy shit.

  I’m praying for Reddit’s downfall here, because if companies are able to get away with this shit the internet is going to get oh so much worse in the near future.

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  • CoderKat@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But at the same time, it sucks. I still use Reddit for episode discussions of shows I watch (which don’t exist here on Lemmy, especially for older shows). I don’t want those to go away without some replacement. Even if Lemmy did suddenly start getting lots of active episode discussions, it’s not really possible to backfill them for older shows and the site is still too small and hard to index, it seems.

    Incidentally, google is the only way I access those, since I no longer browse Reddit normally.

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