Found a good image explanation of this whole thing.

Edit: update image to use light theme.

Credit goes to @[email protected]

  • YourNewestMaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Right now i’ve had an issue myself where the potential answer to my issue is in a privated subreddit. So, i had to search even more. Frankly, it highlights the downside of having this become a thing. So i am on the fence whether i want that to happen at all.

    • Sleo@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      If you see the Google results on reddit for what you are looking for, you can click the three dots and look at the cached pages of reddit on Google

    • theusualuser@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Totally understand this. I’m working on setting up my steam deck, and decided to go the Windows only route with it. Well, the main place for all things windows on the steamdeck is reddit. Youtube’s search means it’s a needle in a haystack for specific questions I have, since the overwhelming majority of people using the steamdeck are using SteamOS on it. It’s really put me at a loss when it comes to getting answers, until that sub comes back up. I just hope that data can be migrated somewhere else, since I don’t want to support reddit but I DO want to engage heavily with that community.

      • Anonymous0573@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I feel like subreddit moderators dropped the ball here. They all could’ve made Lemmy communities and linked the subreddits there so everything could’ve just continued as normal but on Lemmy instead. I’m wondering why none of them did that. Do they actually think Reddit will revert the changes and go back to normal?

        • theusualuser@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          1 year ago

          The trouble with Lemmy as an alternative to reddit, or ANY place as an alternative to reddit, is that eventually the server costs are going to rack up and it’ll either shut down or have to ask more and more for payment. I’m okay paying, but a lof of people probably aren’t. We’ll see how all this unfolds in the coming months.

          • minimar@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            I’m not worried. Mastodon instances have already happily been funded by their userbase, so I don’t see why it’d be any different here.