Tell me about your methods and sites for finding anything and everything you look for on the internet. Information, normal day-to-day searches, investigation, research, NSFW, gore—anything and everything. Be as detailed as possible.

Also, when a site you normally use goes down or becomes unavailable, what do you do next to fulfill your needs in that area? What alternative sites, tools, or methods do you use, and how do you go about finding them?

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[–] [S] -3 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

Now we’re getting somewhere you’re right: DuckDuckGo and Wikipedia are good. I’m also a fan of asking AI chatbots, as you mentioned Claude and ChatGPT, when you want to get popular opinions on the internet without crawling through Reddit and Twitter for them and getting to the same results.

Try asking Grok for information and conversate in the form of saving if you ask for something and the chatbot flags it as not appropriate.

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  • [–] 3 points 16 hours ago

    I have no interest in popular opinions, I much prefer to make up my own mind about things. I do sometimes search Reddit for answers to specific (usually tech related) questions but I have never found a use case for twitter, even before Elon Musk ruined what most people liked about it. Anything important happening on twitter/X will be picked up and reported on by one of the sources in my RSS feed and the rest is just noise.

    As far as Grok goes, that's a hard no from me. Even setting aside the fact I try to avoid anything Elon Musk is involved in, Grok is objectively the worst AI on the market. It has a clear white christian nationalist bias and is comically wrong more than half the time.

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