Instead of reddit you can use stackexchange but in the end you don’t get your answer
not only that but we get a fresh look at why we were wrong and shouldn’t have asked the question in the first place
I have never in my life got any useful information out of Quora.
In fact, it’s so bad that when I mistakenly click on a Quora link, and I have some time to kill, I read the page to have a solid laugh at all the stupid answers in there that gets promoted.
Came here to say pretty much this. I will add that one time years ago I went back and gave a correct answer after I had found it. The next time I looked it wasn’t displayed. At that point I determined that quora was a scam site.
I think you can filter out Quora results using uBlock, but you need to Google it so, good luck haha
Just use: https://search.marginalia.nu/ It crawls forums, wikis and other human generated content.
No SEO garbage, scammers or AI. (mostly) It’s still very much an alpha.Nice find! I will switch.
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Someone has it in for me over there. I have been temporarily banned twice in the last several months. It’s insane. I think I am done with that site.
I got banned too, because I posted pictures of Nazis on r/beholdthemasterrace, and they said I was harassing Nazis.
So Reddit supports Nazis.
posts of twitter and tells us to use quora
This is Bluesky!
Same smelly shit.
Not as useful now that so many of us who left Reddit deleted all of our comments on there. Broke a lot of those question and answer threads.
Directions unclear. Reddit blocks my work IP for “network security” unless accounts are used to maximize data collection.
I’ve found that alternative reddit frontends bypass this. That and I believe changing the URL to old reddit.
Of course, this will only work until (if?) Reddit is successful in removing old reddit and preventing third party front-end.
Do you mean New Old Reddit or Old Old Reddit? /hj
No, seriously, they’re apparently working on a New New Reddit to replace their half-baked New Old Reddit (and presumably their still-working-perfectly Old Old Reddit).
Reddit used to be a pretty cool thing. And it still has a lot of good information. But I always feel dirty when I do resort to searching Reddit for information.
Aaron Swartz would be appalled.
I feel like Aaron 100% would have backed Lemmy.
(Edit: Not that I or anyone can speak for him, obviously.)
Just go straight to Wikipedia.
For local information, such as what is the best inexpensive insurance in your city, for example, Wiki can’t answer.
I’ve had more luck with local facebook groups or word of mouth than the internet, for this stuff, in the recent years. This and some group chats are pretty much the only reasons I still have a Meta account…
wikivoyage
Reddit makes me feel dirty.
Quora is just plain vomit.
yahoo answers shutdown ruined it all.
I have never gotten a reliable answer from a quora result. I avoid them like the plague now.
I’ve only ever seen Quora as a joke, I didn’t think people were actually getting good answers there.
Quora is off brand yahoo answers. All of the misinformation and none of the humor
And a vaguely intellectual name, as if knowledgeable people go and post there all the time, when its’ actual academic facade is more analogous to stock photo models wearing labcoats and goggles.
For the record, the real trick is to add “site:reddit.com”. But as the site decays over time that will sadly become less useful.
I really think they are going to start requiring logins or the app to view most content. That seems to be what they are going toward with the “unreviewed content” thing.
100%. To be honest I don’t even use this “trick” anymore myself because like 60% of the links are inaccessible now.
It’s incredibly sad that they destroyed such a great resource, that place was like the Wikipedia of opinions.
Reddit used to be really cool for actual niche advice without getting slapped with advertising. I tried to buy a certain kind of laptop, all the results were ads that contained those words, not what I was looking for. Heaven forbid I want pants that fit a certain body type or anything specific. Sometimes there are still older posts but…eh.
Hit the gym. Delete reddit. Lawyer up.
This is the way.
I deleted a year ago and can count on one hand the number of times I’ve used reddit since.
I don’t think using it for Google counts at all anymore because that’s Google’s fault. I occasionally look at r/beermoney for ideas but that’s it. Haven’t looked at the front page in a year.
There is a disenshittified version of google out there, for now at least: udm14.com.
Every time I’ve used it, it’s for info on a home improvement project. Being that my browser blocks ads, they get nothing from my interactions.
I’m using Qwant, which is the French government search engine, pretty good!
