On one hand we have to move away from Google. On the other hand information should be made available to people. Hopefully we are just in a transitional phase and this isn’t just reigning in a internet dark age.
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Eiri@lemmy.ca 2 weeks agoIt’s increasing taking up the role of one. And I’m sad about it.
I might stop being sad if its forum features become more used and Discord massively improved discoverability, but for now it sucks for people googling problems.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Eiri@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Well I said Google but ideally that would be “a healthy market of several competing quality search engines”.
Right now I think we only have Google and Bing. (Lots of alternatives like DuckDuckGo ultimately use Google I think)
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
My rule of thumb is, if it says, “Join our Discord,” I move on. I’ll only join a Discord if I want to discuss something, not if I want answers to questions.
zod000@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Same here, except I won’t go on Discord for discussion either. I really loath the platform. I’d even go back on the dumpster fire that is Telegram before I go back to Discord. Good thing IRC still exists.
Eiri@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
That’s cool in principle, but what if I actually want help?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I just look up YT videos or find a wiki, and 90% of the time I can find my answer that way. It’s a lot nicer than trying to figure out where they stuck something on Discord…