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  • dotfiles@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    When people look up things on google, they specifically look for a solution posted on reddit, I know I do. Lemmy needs to be used as a way for people to solve problems, before it can take over what reddit is used for now. I’m staying on Lemmy because I like the idea of a functioning reddit alternative.

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      For me, Reddit is now only a place to look up solutions, and not a group of communities to participate in.

      The kind of solutions I would formerly post on Reddit, I will post on Lemmy instead. And I will participate in Lemmy communities as they pop up.

      With time, as niche communities set up shop elsewhere, I expect I will have to search Reddit less and less.

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        1 year ago

        Exactly. I spent years answering all sorts of questions. those comments are gone now and I will use lemmy from now on

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        1 year ago

        And this is how we’ll grow the community; stop posting shit on Reddit. It’ll reduce visibility, sure…but that’s just how it’s gotta be.

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      1 year ago

      I used to be the same but I’m going to be pretty devoted to looking for alternative sources of information. They’re definitely out there, just not as reliable/easy to find 👀

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      Totally agree with this, Reddit still has a lot of “collective knowledge” stored there.

      I wonder, is there an instance here that has tried porting over subrredits?

      • Pixelologist@lemmy.world
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        There’s a .zip of all of reddit that gets passed around for training LLMs. it’s around 90gb.

        Not sure how to do the rest though as far as making a fork

      • dotfiles@lemmy.world
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        IMO that’s why we should all edit over and burn our data on our way out

        That’s not effective at all, and not cool because:

        1. Most of that data is in web archive anyway.
        2. When you want to find a solution to some gaming or linux bug, or help with some project, it’s frustrating to see the user who posted the solution has deleted the comment.
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      1 year ago

      I have seen a lot of comments about looking up solution on reddit. I have never done that. Most problems has solutions on blogs, stackoverflow, YouTube, Wikipedia, other forums about the specific product, the brands own dokumentation and so on. I don’t know what I should use reddit for. Maybe reviews? But I use YouTube for that. What do you search for on reddit? Reddit has only been for entertainment or news (but newspapers and blogs can give me that too) for me.

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        Youtube “solutions” are useless. I’m not going to watch a friggen video, normally 10+ minutes, to hopefully maybe see if it answers my question.

        Same with reviews. youtube reviews look all official because they’re a video, who knows. With reddit you get comments (that aren’t useless like youtube’s), and votes (with downvotes).

      • Ternpike@lemmy.world
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        Reddit has been a kind of unofficial support channel for a lot of companies since it doubles as good pr to be visibly helping their community. For smaller companies it’s also a lot easier to spin up a subreddit and try to attract people there for a free marketing and support platform. I see quite a few tech companies operate in that way, but Ubiquiti is one of the bigger ones that first comes to mind.

        With the rise of Discord, I think Reddit is losing some ground in that space much like individual forums before it, but Reddit still has a lot of historical data in it for troubleshooting things that aren’t as common.