The bigger problem is I now can't google anything with site:reddit.com and it's making my job in IT so much harder. Google is basically worthless now. Guess I'll have to go back to reading books.
The plus side is I never commented on reddit literally ever so maybe I'll get to contribute something now.
Sigh, totally know what you mean. I'm so accustomed to typing " reddit" at the end of any google search to see what people on reddit had to say about whatever. It's been tough but I'm doing my best to stay away from reddit as long as possible
I had to search something yesterday and only the results on Reddit seemed promising. I took the URL from one of them over to archive.ph, which let me search their archive + Google's cache + archive.org.
Archive.org had a copy of it, so I was able to get what I need. If they didn't have it, archive.ph would have crawled it for me to add it to their archive. (Which would give Reddit some traffic, but not so much that I'd worry about it.)
Kind of a time sink, but pretty sure there are browser add-ons to speed up the process.
ChatGPT is not a useful tool once you get into the weeds. It's just a predictive model. Sometimes it's been helpful, but I despise not knowing what it's just making up and what is actually pulled from a source. I am loathe to put my trust in a tool that will lie to me.
My personal success rate (Laravel development) is pretty high. Only the things that are also hard to find on Google go wrong. It might depend on the field you are in though, I can imagine a language model is better suited to help with a programming language than with a network problem.
Hmm, maybe I'll start giving that a shot then and see how that goes. Thanks for the rec!
I'd still love to try to turn the fediverse into a better version of reddit by donating what minimal amount of experience I have to help others. Be the change you wanna see and all that. AI is an interesting tool, but I really love scrolling through various recommendations and also seeing replies indicating how well different solutions worked.
Googling and choosing the reddit stuff was usually a way better option because had multiple people answering and not just one thing that can't really be trusted and if it is wrong you have to try again. It becomes very weak when you try to ask something that is more specific
my coworker just did that today lol. I'm honestly wondering what effect the blackout will take on normal professionals who know nothing about what's going on at reddit but use it daily when searching.
Got a question on a game? Want starting tips on how to start a hobby like painting? Want to know what kind of light bulb to get for the house? What can opener is actually reliable and won't break in 3 months?
Reddit threads were there for you when no one else was because google became such a worthless search engine that it ironically was only good for searching reddit stuff because reddit's search engine was terrible, even after all the reworks.
The thing I've focusing on with the fediverse is just how many technology minded folks are probably congregating here. I image for IT at least, there will be some catch up, but it could become a good source for IT related help... now for the more niche hobby stuff, that might be a little harder. If I'm gonna be anti-reddit from here on out, that means I can't go into r/bookbinding or r/woodworking and look into guides for stuff as easily.
I've been thinking about making a compendium of all the wikis of all the niche hobby subreddits and upload them somewhere. Hell, someone might've already done that by now. Hopefully the fediverse continues to become more accessible so grandma can stop by and share her kickass pie recipes
Oh there definitely are a lot tech minded folk here on the fediverse. I see a lot of them on Mastodon/Calckey and I'm sure there will be plenty here too in time.
I have RIF on my phone's home screen and my muscle memory kept making me open it. I had to take it off to stop myslef. Switching all my bookmarks and shortcuts to kbin makes it easier for me on my PC. I am just waiting to an app version of kbin for my phone to scratch that itch
if you are on firefox (probably a chrome one too) you can use the "Redirector" program to send you to kbin instead, could also set up some simple regex so say, reddit.com/r/technology redirects you to kbin.social/m/technology
Yeah, I try to avoid third party plugins as much as possible on browsers. Instead I added a site block on my router's admin page so it blocks across every device I use to browse reddit (for my own sanity I never installed any reddit app on my phone haha)
I do the same, except for me i just removed my standard bookmarks. I keep finding myself automatically typing in old.reddit.com and i'm at the frontpage before i realize, then immediately close.
It's scary how habitual visiting reddit to doomscroll is.
Have also done this a few times. However at this point for me it's out of principle. Don't want to be on Reddit so I'm just trying to avoid it as much as possible, but I'm already finding that kbin scratches the itch :)
I deleted my main means of browsing Reddit, Sync for Reddit, from my phone and replaced its spot with the mobile (chrome) app for kbin on my phone. Other than briefly opening Reddit to see if certain communities went dark, I haven't visited Reddit at all and honestly haven't felt the need as I'm happy participating in this growing community.
It also doesn't help Reddit that it doesn't let you browse from their mobile website anymore, pushing for their app lmao
Really hoping someone out there develops a good kbin app. The desktop site works fine for me, but I was primarily using Apollo for reddit, and it would be nice to have a kbin analog to that.
I did the same thing, haha. Replaced the icon for RiF with the PWA for Kbin, deleted the official Reddit app on my phone (which I only used if I needed to upload a video), and logged out of RiF.
I did, however, have had to log into old.reddit a couple of times yesterday, because the people in the community I help moderate keep sending modmail to request access, and I wanted to mark them as read xD
I accidentally clicked a notification from reddit yesterday. Fortunately I realized my mistake and exited out before it was done loading. The habit is going to be hard to kick, but we will get there eventually. I haven't thought of blocking it at the router level though, I'm going to have to do that later. Thanks for the idea.
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