Google's results have been getting worse over time, but it seems like the last couple years, they've taken a steep nose-dive, completely overrun with crappy content farming....
Kagi, hands down, is by far the best search engine I've ever used (next to Neeva, which got bought and shut down).
Just simple searches like "Best gaming headphones" or "Realtek Driver Download" and comparing them with Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave, Startpage, etc. shows how the quality of the results are far superior.
And you can directly define, which sites you'd like to see higher / more results of or less - or even completely block or pin them to the top.
Also, it also shows you directly, before visiting a site, in colors if a site has a very high number of ads and/or trackers.
And they support for power users custom CSS to adjust everything, URL rewrites (e.g. change all Reddit URLs to old.reddit), DDG and custom bangs, and much more.
Made me feel a little unwell at the beginning as well, but considering that the search is one of the main, key features I use daily, multiple times, it is totally worth it.
I pay for a search engine, but:
High quality search results
No ads
High customizability
No weird SEO optimized Website results which help me not at all and I lose hours in a year clicking them by accident
That's what I expect to happen as well. Nothing stops them from kicking out the current mods / admins, replacing them with new mods willing to take over and continue as before (or even use AI moderation tools to minimize the efforts).
I’m a bit confused as to what platform I should look to for my exodus from Reddit. First we have Lemmy which is a direct Reddit alternative. Then we have kbin which is ALSO is own Reddit alternative AND portal to Lemmy/Mastodon. Finally we have Mastodon which is the well established Twitter alternative that doesn’t really...
Lemmy is more of a Reddit alternative, where you have the focus on communities/categories (similar to "subreddits") to which you can subscribe to, while Mastodon is more a Twitter alternative, focusing on users to follow.
Kbin is actually slightly special.
It is also running on the Fediverse network, but can communicate with multiple other services. Meaning, it can show you content from all Lemmy instances (called Threads) and content from Mastodon (called Microblog). You can see this thread there as well.
By using Kbin, you have access to both worlds, Lemmy and Mastodon. In addition, it supports even more of the so-called "ActivityPub" services, like Pleroma or Peertube.
While I love the implementation of Kbin, it still has small hiccups here and there - it feels less reliable/stable. Some content isn't fully updated, like this post missing most of the comments at the time I posted this. They even warn you about it: "The magazine from the federated server may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance."
I had the best experience so far by using a Lemmy instance for Lemmy and a Mastodon instance for Mastodon. Waiting for Kbin to be more mature.
First Facebook with their whole meta thing, then Imgur deleting all NSFW content and images uploaded by non-registered members, afterwards Twitter and now Reddit.
Discord had a few changes the community didn't like, but nothing ground breaking yet. But they get more and more greedy and their platform is filled with scams, hackers, bots and sadly many bad people like child predators and content which Discord support does nothing against. They seem not to care.
YouTube, well, I think they might be next actually. More and longer unskipable ads, restricting or demonetizing many videos, bad communication with their creators and less rewards for smaller creators. In addition, they might put high quality resolutions behind their already existing expensive subscription paywall. There isn't any competition which is urgently needed.
What do you all search with?
Google's results have been getting worse over time, but it seems like the last couple years, they've taken a steep nose-dive, completely overrun with crappy content farming....
How soon is the new season coming?
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/70eb7ef1-718f-4be3-bdea-d8be224a63e5.jpeg
Reddit r/all page right now - posting a screenshot here so you don't have to open it (feddit.de)
As you know, part of the protest includes us users not accessing Reddit at all....
r/iPhone will be going private indefinitely (3.82 mil subscribers) - joining r/videos and many other subreddits (old.reddit.com)
Quote:...
Bad tech news continues - YouTube Orders ‘Invidious’ Privacy Software to Shut Down in 7 Days (iptv.legal)
Overwhelmed a bit with fediverse redundancy.
I’m a bit confused as to what platform I should look to for my exodus from Reddit. First we have Lemmy which is a direct Reddit alternative. Then we have kbin which is ALSO is own Reddit alternative AND portal to Lemmy/Mastodon. Finally we have Mastodon which is the well established Twitter alternative that doesn’t really...
so, which Big Tech company do you think is going to shit the bed next and popularize its Fediverse/FOSS equivalent in the process?
I'm personally crossing my fingers for Discord.