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Please do it.
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If Reddit disappeared today, the one thing I'd miss the most is the guides on how to configure and customize newer firmware for my printer. One dude makes the most verbose, easy to follow tutorial and if i can't find it, Reddit can burn
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Snapshots:
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Reddit search is absolute dogshit. It will be unusable if they do this
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Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, was once one of five Reddit board members and even a temporary stand-in CEO of the site. And of course he was also formerly a CEO of YCombinator--during which he was certainly pals with Paul Graham, the REAL creator of Reddit.
Little Stevie and his nerdboy college friend wanted to deliver samiches. That was their pitch. Paul Graham, a behind-the-scenes 'startup' investor, thought differently.
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No? This would require reddit to have a functional search. Which it absolutely does not.
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Even then, how would they get new users? And how much ad revenue would they lose from the people who just come from google?
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It's funny, I hardly ever go on Reddit since the protests, and even then it's just to shitpost. Reddit doesn't even occur to me when I am looking for stuff now.
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The only time In visiting reddit is when someone links it here
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Same
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/r/WatchRedditAutoeroticAsphyxiate
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/r/watchreddit-ACK
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YES
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Please do. I wanna see the programmers cope that they cant google answers anymore.
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ChatGPT is to the point that I can just paste pseudocode in and copy out C/JS/Python of whatever.
Programmers are possibly the people least affected by the death of Reddit or even Stackoverflow
Don't forget to turn off signatures in settings!
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Yeah but gpt is bleeding money. I dont expect it to laat for very long. Maybe a few more years.
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Chatgpt is to the point that i can generate dozens of glowing reviews for my broken code and nobody knows it sucks
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StackOverflow?
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Would need to go next.
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Most of the solutions I find are on personal blogs.
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Yeah but youre probably a capable programmer. Im talking like leetcode grinders who constantly have to look up crap like how to make a binary tree or catch/try errors.
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Butt when their twitter is threatend they get all butt-hurt
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Who gets butthurt about twitter?
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What's with your "butt's" all of the sudden, butthole?
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I'm trying to draw awareness to butt health !slots111
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That's like the Samson option, right? Reddit and Google both collapse into rubble. The web is so shit now that appending “Reddit” to basically any search is an improvement. That's only not true if you'd be better off putting “stack overflow” instead. Even hacker news peepeeweeds, who you'd think would have better tricks, admit this.
Just get it over and done with. Let AI completely take over search. To fill in the gaps I'll download the whole of Reddit from some pushshift or whatever and host it on cloud somewhere for €1.99/mo.
(Anyone got an educated guess how much that would actually cost?)
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5k
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Try $50k lol
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Oh yeah??? How did you come to that number????
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The old fashioned way
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Reddit small niche subs are where it's at for answers and I'm angry if they do this. Their own search sucks frickin assssssss.
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.
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I want muh niche subs, dammit!
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It's been oddly useful for me, working on like…one of three extant trucks that are modified in some exact particular way by some dude in Alberta in 1970. Someone's like “yeah if it's clicking here it's normal, but if it's clicking on the other side, that's bad”.
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Yep, I built a computer a few years ago and the case connection between LEDs and the motherboard had 0 instructions, but I know that connecting it wrong burns out the LEDs. Only place I found an answer was some obscure Reddit sub.
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If those trucks are so funky then why are they still in service?
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Because literally nothing else can perform the one task these trucks were built for. Why are the heavy presses from the heavy press program still in service?
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Cause they havent tried using my asscheeks yet
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it's literally the only way these days to get any real people talking about something they've actually tried/used without ending up on an ai generated indian site saying "do you want info on x? here's all the answers" while giving you like, a wikipedia summary
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lol idk why the sexy Indian dudes do these things, but I've noticed that. It's always some story about the history of the thing and then general AI generated crap that says nothing. That GeeksForGeeks site even gives you a popup to remove your ad blocker, and nope too bad for them. The pennies will not come from me.
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I wish those sites were delisted.
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You can get browser extensions to do this. I am considering getting Kagi, which allows you to do this.
I seem to recall that google used to allow you to do this
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Is it basically a JAVAScripted blacklist of nonsense domains? It's interesting, but their domain names always give away the game.
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Good reddit shits up google results almost as bad as quora
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Google is so fricking terrible now that reddit results are actually the good ones. The rest are AI generated "articles" even if you're looking for something where articles definitely can't help you with like a technical issue and annoying results from mainstream sites that have nothing to do with what I'm searching for. Specifically for politics Yandex is better because it's not so fricking censored and for tech issues sometimes Bing is. Generally though search engines are fricking awful now, we're actually going backwards
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I hate the ones that waffle on about "We understand how frustrating it can be to have a Toro lawnmower that won't start. Lawnmowers are a useful tool for many homeowners who wish to...." when I just need to see the belt diagram
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And of course there isn't one. I blame google for this cancer, if they didn't deliberately prioritize these fricks they wouldn't exist
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Reddits more useful for weird tech problems that require more effort than "restart the computer" and "is your shit plugged in"
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Unless you have an issue with VLC.
For how popular it is, both developer and community support is non-existent.
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mmmmm shir did yoo tchry updaighting yoor driversh
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More importantly, if there's an answer, it's usually from the dude with most updoots who just gets to the point without any noise. Quora is unreadable drivel, and click farming "articles" on the subject are 95% noise.
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Unironically. There's a ton of niche answers for weird shit that's hard to find anywhere else. It's just buried under mountains of garbage and unfindable unless you use Google search
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They're beginning to think that their sites have become "too big to fail."
There is some legitimacy to this idea. Sites form communities, and those communities are a big selling point for them. These big websites have accumulated enormous communities over time.
This has made it impossible for any upstart competitor to thrive, because no matter what you do you can't grow a community as big and attractive as the ones in big sites who had a head start.
So these guys essentially have an oligopoly over online spaces. They have no competition, so they can do whatever the frick they want.
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I'm so happy in the Congo32624647 6mo ago #5218046 Edited None spent 0 currency on pingsWhatever they want, except turn a profit
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in the last five years people realised that social media sites don't actually produce anything or make any money so they're desperately trying to monetise.
Even YouTub is a money suck. We're basically in the middle of another Dotcom bust
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VC cash is running out
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It really cracks me up to think about what a giant burning pile of rich people's money reddit has consumed over the span of its entire existence.
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It's a mutually beneficial deal if you want to promote a message.
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tumblr alone burned a billion, imagine what reddit blows through - by their own admission during the app shitshow they've never had a profitable year
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Reddit is, and has been for years, a gigantic propaganda factory. Even if it lost money, it won elections and customers for its true end-users.
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Is that what the really late-stage funding rounds were actually about? Disguised quid pro quo?
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That doesn't neccesarily mean there was a secret agreement between VCs and reddit hashed out in a smoke-filled room.
Nevertheless, the rich and powerful recognise how useful and powerful reddit is as a propaganda organ. Ergo, they drop the cash to keep it online.
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I'm so happy in the CongoHoss 6mo ago #5217583 Edited None spent 0 currency on pingsIts amazing that they manage to have such high operation costs. Its a large forum that hasn't had a single positive change in a decade.
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Hey, moving into, and then back out of, San Francisco is expensive.
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All I want is for the janitors to start to feel the pain, remove them all in favour of AI moderation or something
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Why don't u like jannies
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!downvoters
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Interest rates are up and now they actually need to make money
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Can't this be said about any industry, that they somehow have to generate absurd ROI?
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Sure but tech companies were getting r-slurred money from investors hoping to cash in on the next big thing and had massive price/earnings ratios. In most industries if you never turn a profit for 10 years you go out of business.
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Unironically this
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genuinely correct answer. The money hose is tapped, so companies that don't actually produce anything, let alone anything of value, have started scrambling.
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