I want you all to know that when @roo saw that this was at 68 boosts he rushed to boost it so he could be the 69th boost and then when I confirmed he got the 69th boost he did a dance around the room saying "NNNNNNICE! NNNNICE! NNNNNICE!"

@Velveteen it might be a unhelpful cesspool 99% of the time, but when you find the anwser, 50% chance it's on reddit

@Velveteen i was always afraid that this was going to happen. I guess my obsessive hoarding of everything i find useful on the net finally pays off.

@Velveteen Yeah, more and more I was adding site:reddit.com to my searches because everything else is getting worse and worse

@Velveteen Seriously, most search results out there are garbage (though food recipes tend to be an exception). I keep a digital notebook (via Joplin) for solutions found at blogs, forums, and other places, and I pray that Internet Archive will have a record of these sites if they ever disappear.

@Velveteen Not to mention lots of niche information being hidden away on Discord where a simple search engine use will never find it.

@Velveteen @Tamasg This can happen if the lemming instance goes away, or the bin instance, I don’t think there is a solution that helps to mitigate this

@Velveteen SEO is ruining the internet. Part of the reason why AI is so useful is because navigating search results manually has become awful.

@Velveteen been happening to me all day. If really desperate, you cna use the cached result from googled result. You can get the Info you need, without giving reddit ad money or engagement for metrics.

@Velveteen it is the social pain we feel with the absolute #RightToLeave -
happened a little recently when I have tried to find content in people’s Twitter feeds who have left. (and mine ‘cuz I have partially deleted tweet history)

@Velveteen SEO voodoo make the internet unusable much earlier, but Reddit and Quora often dominate top results for niche topics and problems. At least Quora tells you blatantly it's a garbage fire, you can do anything without an account so you leave and never go back.

@Velveteen to be fair, decentralization has the same problem - if someone stops hosting or moves content. The bigger problem is maybe that like libraries, one person shouldn't be able to make decisions that affect the world's information? Either way, you're spot on how absolutely fucked if it all is. @donmelton

@Velveteen That's why I spoke of either archiving all the posts or forcing the subs read only somehow. I ran into that when searching for a detail in The Hobbit, because apparently even the Tolkien sub went dark.

@Velveteen we were complaining about bad search results back when that started getting real bad, and the refrain was "it's okay i just add reddit to the query and everything's fine again" (: