this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2024
791 points (94.3% liked)

Fediverse

28733 readers
370 users here now

A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to !moderators@lemmy.world!

Rules

Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

It is clear that the signal to noise ratio of the WWW is getting worse. It's much harder to find good content when using a good old search engine. And if it's good it is usually hosted on Reddit or Stackexchange.

So remember, even if it's easy too Google something (well, it isn't nowadays), we want to create a fediverse of good content that helps people (I hope). So, it's always better to write a real answer if you have the time and energy. Please help boost the SNR and reverse the AI fueled information degradation loop.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 40 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Also, fuck Google. I've been removing the word from my lexicon. I say, let me search (or research) that instead

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

can you ducking duck off you ducking ducker?

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

IRL i'll say 'online search' or 'internet search' now, and no one ever asks me about that or tries to clarify with 'google?', so the message seems to be coming across just fine.

Same. I still choose to believe that not using Google as a verb makes a dent in the behemoth. Usually gets a curious reply like "what, like Bing?"