As an example: I was doing a search for the best sesame substitute today. Everything that came up was things like, “11 Best Sesame Substitutes,” and I know for a fact that just about everything they suggested tastes nothing like sesame. Just another site trying to get hits. So I added reddit.com into my search parameters and immediately got some decent answers.

I really hate that I have to do that to get anything useful, but there is a ridiculous amount of useful information on Reddit. I hope the fediverse gets to this point as well one day.

Anway, just needed to vent. Lemmy on.

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    1 year ago

    It will. I’ve asked stupid questions on here, that I could have gone to Reddit to find the answers for, just to help out with content.

    I still use Reddit for movie megathreads. There’s nowhere else on the internet that I’m able to do that yet. And I’d love to start megathreads here, but I’m not capable of handling such responsibility.

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      1 year ago

      I will try to do my part and ask some stupid questions as well. I have a whole lifetime of experience in being stupid so it shouldn’t be a problem.

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      1 year ago

      Yep I still search Reddit for answers, but I post content and ask questions here. Which is fine IMO, it’s has always been the people that make the good content, not the platform. There were good hardworking people that made those resources, and so it’s ok to use it till those resources move off site.

      One issue with Lemmy is the SEO problem. There are a few Lemmy search tools, but simply googling something doesn’t bring up posts like it would with Reddit. It either needs time, or someone will implement a fix in the source code.