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 have never gotten a reliable answer from a quora result. I avoid them like the plague now.

I'm pretty sad these days when I see an issue marked as solved, but then when I get to the solution it just says "this comment has been deleted in objection to the API changes and Steve Huffman is a dirty little piss boy". We've lost millions of hours worth of answers because of Reddit 's greed.

The best way to find information on the internet is to give up on Google and use Kagi. Add a question mark at the end of your search and it'll summarize all of the top results for you, directly giving you the answer and saving you tons of time. They include sources if you want to dig deeper.

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.

This ain't just Google. SEO effectively killed all search engines. As an IT guy who's been googling shit before I was 10, I can't find shit anymore.

Reddit makes me feel dirty.

Quora is just plain vomit.

Directions unclear. Reddit blocks my work IP for “network security” unless accounts are used to maximize data collection.

Yes this is the only reason I still have a Reddit account

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.

Hit the gym. Delete reddit. Lawyer up.

Y'all closing your browser tab at the end? I just leave the tab open, just Incase I need it (or the other 200 tabs I haven't touched in months)

These days, I only ever use Reddit to find answers and to comment in one small community I probably could not live without. I've drastically cut down on my Reddit usage since whole API debacle.

(Don't ask about trying to move that community to Lemmy. Already had someone ask that repeatedly the last time I mentioned this. They've polled their users, and they're not moving.)

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.

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.

Instead of reddit you can use stackexchange but in the end you don't get your answer

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.

I still have a Reddit account but I stopped posting anything to it a couple of years ago. I only use it for a few niche things I can't find anywhere else, like r/SamsungWatchFaces

This is the way.

I deleted a year ago and can count on one hand the number of times I've used reddit since.

Just go straight to Wikipedia.

I hate that google has become a verb