I’m the type of user who independently seeks information on internet forums before asking a question, because in 99% of cases, someone has already had the same problem as me.
I usually Google the phrase I’m looking for, adding the word “reddit” to it, and almost always get what I want. And I’ll continue to do so until the Lemmy knowledge base is sufficiently expanded to replace the Reddit knowledge base.
Here’s a novel concept: just ask the question here. I can provide the same answer I did on Reddit, now with the benefit of many more years’ worth of knowledge and experience.
Whether or not, you can access my old answer from many years ago instantly via Google is not a concern for me. I didn’t put that comment on Reddit many years ago for your personal convenience, And complaining about it now sounds more than a little bit entitled. If you wanna be mad at anyone, be mad at Reddit for shitting all over the free content, the users provided by taking advantage of them.
Look, I find it kinda shitty that OP comes here of all places complaining about this of all things. Like… c’mon. Talk about tone-deaf and entitled. And ya know what? Who wants some 5 or 8 year-old answers to tech questions anyway? You want the latest and greatest, so omg, you can’t get instant gratification via google. Big fucking whoop. Wait an hour or two by gaspposting the question here and waiting for an informed response!
I’m the type of user who independently seeks information on internet forums before asking a question, because in 99% of cases, someone has already had the same problem as me.
I usually Google the phrase I’m looking for, adding the word “reddit” to it, and almost always get what I want. And I’ll continue to do so until the Lemmy knowledge base is sufficiently expanded to replace the Reddit knowledge base.
Here’s a novel concept: just ask the question here. I can provide the same answer I did on Reddit, now with the benefit of many more years’ worth of knowledge and experience.
Whether or not, you can access my old answer from many years ago instantly via Google is not a concern for me. I didn’t put that comment on Reddit many years ago for your personal convenience, And complaining about it now sounds more than a little bit entitled. If you wanna be mad at anyone, be mad at Reddit for shitting all over the free content, the users provided by taking advantage of them.
Thank you. I have started seeing more questions asked and answered on lemmy and it’s giving me a teeny tiny spark of hope.
And of course, if nobody answers a question, there’s always Cunningham’s Law. That works here, too…
Look, I find it kinda shitty that OP comes here of all places complaining about this of all things. Like… c’mon. Talk about tone-deaf and entitled. And ya know what? Who wants some 5 or 8 year-old answers to tech questions anyway? You want the latest and greatest, so omg, you can’t get instant gratification via google. Big fucking whoop. Wait an hour or two by gasp posting the question here and waiting for an informed response!
Kinda like one used to do on Reddit…