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As an example: I was doing a search for the best sesame substitute today. Everything that came up was things like, "11 Best Sesame Substitutes," and I know for a fact that just about everything they suggested tastes nothing like sesame. Just another site trying to get hits. So I added reddit.com into my search parameters and immediately got some decent answers.

I really hate that I have to do that to get anything useful, but there is a ridiculous amount of useful information on Reddit. I hope the fediverse gets to this point as well one day.

Anway, just needed to vent. Lemmy on.

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[–] mysoulishome@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ugh…I feel this. Recently have been struggling with tennis elbow and without Reddit all I would have had was shitty google web results…blogs, bullshit articles full of clickbait and ads with the same 5 tips. Including reddit I was able to figured out what the actual best information was…without the influence of big media bullshit.

I did check mastodon and Lemmy…nothing really.

The shitty thing is the biggest value reddit has at this point is the years of valuable information WE put into it. Facts and opinions ranked and critiqued and crowdsourced. Our best stories, photos, resources. Despite what people tell themselves, we don’t own any of it. It sucks.

[–] Bartem@feddit.nl 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But how can we accomplish the same with lemmy?

We can’t add Lemmy.com to the google search, and I can’t remember all the lemmy community names either.

[–] ArchTemperedKoala@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe just adding lemmy to the end would work.. I usually did what OP did but just using reddit added instead of the whole dot com thing..

[–] alphapuggle@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's my biggest gripe with the fediverse. SEO kinda sucks. I haven't had any luck with adding lemmy at the end

[–] ArchTemperedKoala@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Is it because the way the fediverse works or just because there isn't enough topics about it?..

[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Instead of using a search engine or reddit, have you tried asking the real and friendly people here for an answer?

I did this to prove a point. You can check it out, crushed peanut or flaxseed seem popular.

https://lemmy.world/post/4349618

The answers on reddit didn't magically appear out of thin air. Instead of lamenting about the lack of answers on Lemmy, asking here will get you a good answer real quick.

[–] FireTower@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The issue isn't that reddit has all the answers the issue is that search engines like Google show you the websites that have been best optimized for search engines, not the most helpful ones.

Ending searches with 'reddit' works because reddit is the largest group of forums on the web & forums typically are full of people knowledgeable on a specific topic that have good answers.

The quality of returned search results IMO has degraded appreciably. When I search the same question as you posted the entire first page of results is long winded listicals. There's a lot of seemingly helpful & succinct answers in that post you made but no one searching Google will find it if they enter the exact title.

[–] Enigma@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It will. I’ve asked stupid questions on here, that I could have gone to Reddit to find the answers for, just to help out with content.

I still use Reddit for movie megathreads. There’s nowhere else on the internet that I’m able to do that yet. And I’d love to start megathreads here, but I’m not capable of handling such responsibility.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Yep I still search Reddit for answers, but I post content and ask questions here. Which is fine IMO, it's has always been the people that make the good content, not the platform. There were good hardworking people that made those resources, and so it's ok to use it till those resources move off site.

One issue with Lemmy is the SEO problem. There are a few Lemmy search tools, but simply googling something doesn't bring up posts like it would with Reddit. It either needs time, or someone will implement a fix in the source code.

[–] Dempf@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

I will try to do my part and ask some stupid questions as well. I have a whole lifetime of experience in being stupid so it shouldn't be a problem.