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Back in the day you could find a forum post explaining exactly how anything worked, grey hat or not? Since then the internet has sanitized that out of existence. Should Lemmy revive that culture? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Lawyers, platform moderation, and SEO have wiped it out. What's left is boring drivel whose only purpose is to sell you a product or a course or avoid a lawsuit. I realize some have moved to private groups and there are still sites if you look hard enough. But is that enough?

Federation feels like the right place to bring that culture back rather than let it die or has that ship sailed?

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[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

What do you mean? What can't you find?

Actually, a How-to comm might be a great idea

[–] Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

I agree, within a minute you can either search on some search engine that censors a bit less stuff than google, like for example duckduckgo, or even asking chatgpt with some very light deception gets you any info your hearth desires

[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

What kicked this off was a desire to scrape Facebook groups to build a dataset. I just wanted to play around with different things to see patterns or sentiment analyses.

Seems like there was this shift or bifurcation online about a decade or so ago. Information was everywhere. Now it isn't.