Reddit’s CEO helps Google ruin the internet - F spez

[@rudiger86]

Why is your audio always out of sync to the video?

[@rossmanngroup]

I'm a Linux user, nothing works the way it's supposed to. If it did, it wouldn't be any fun. Pipewire with wireplumber, stock settings. There is probably some one thousand page manpage I'm supposed to read in order to get synced audio. Fuck if i have the time for it though.

[@rudiger86]

@@rossmanngroup still working on that console foo then

[@repairstudio4940]

Seems fine to me.... Meh 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@ObscureStuff420]

That's why I still have to use Windows. Linux is awful.

[@streetsurfer420]

@@rossmanngroup Can't say I've ever noticed a problem personally. Maybe it's because you talk fast sometimes so some people just can't keep up, idk. Thanks for the inspiring work.

[@ieaatclams]

Google doesn't give you results, it gives you ads. All search engines are trash. Why can't we have search results from 2005?

[@ScarySox]

Google is w4nk, I use duck Duck Go or Brave but they're not the best tbh!

[@Nonameron]

You need to append all searches with a time range of before 2020 or something

[@touma-san91]

You could try Wiby

[@werner.x]

"Why can't we have search results from 2005?" Because the information, which was freely accessible in the internet in 2005 isn't even there any more in 2024. They deleted more content off the net as they put new one in.

[@joshuagibson2520]

Alta Vista was great

[@stuartlaird7341]

To paraphrase, The internet now consists for 5 websites each containing screen shots of the other 4.

[@mammutMK2]

You literally need to go to the dark net to find something...actually the dark net is the internet how it was 20 year's ago.

[@bobolobocus333]

KZbin, Reddit, TikTok, Instagram, and Tumblr?

[@danielstoddart]

@@bobolobocus333 Tumblr has been dead for years. Instagram is for lifestyle "influencers". You know things are bad when the only way new music artists can get a record deal is if they blow up on TikTok.

[@uenragedbro]

​@@bobolobocus333 the app we never speak of, too

[@erich6860]

@@bobolobocus333 I just checked,,,, myspace still exist LOL... XD

[@vincei4252]

I tried to find the data sheet for a Ti part from the early 90's that was easily available about 8 years ago. I had a repair job to do on a system sent to me by a retired HP engineer who wanted his gear to find good homes. I searched Google for hours and hours and couldn't find the data sheet. All Google ever did was show me people that _might_ sell me the part but absolutely no information about the actual part. I finally gave up and contacted Texas Instruments who after 6 days of searching told me that they have no idea what their part from the 90's is. I was shocked. After 2 more days of searching I stumbled across one page of the datasheet which happened to mention what databook the part was in. I found the databook on eBay and eventually a digital copy on one of the archive sites that for some reason Google no longer indexes. We are losing information at an alarming rate and Google is making absolutely sure that happens faster. They suck.

[@nanashialfarr]

I did some for old cartoons, I used ChatGPT to help me search because google was not helping it.

[@marcogenovesi8570]

Duck Duck Go search engine is so much better nowadays, and not because it's "better" but because Google is just dropping the ball so hard.

[@treelineresearch3387]

I do this sort of search quite a bit, Yandex often seems to turn up better results than anyone else.

[@vincei4252]

@@treelineresearch3387 I tried DuckDuckGo and Bing and both returned the same results for sellers that might sell the part but don't actually have any and never any actual information about the part. It was infuriating. I have never tried Yandex. Thank for the tip I'll give it a try.

[@hermitxIII]

Doesn't help that the internet archive took down a lot of pages.

[@peacemaker9807]

The internet has become boring. All thanks to greed. And shortsighted stupidity.

[@Yggdrasill8]

Greed is the main culprit to the enshittification of many things in the economy. Low quality shrinkflation products, planned obsolesence, right to repair, subscriptions for everything no ownership, etc.

[@JohnSmith-eu2dt]

Don't attribute to stupidity what belongs to malice.

[@GlobeTrotter-t1t]

yeah just read books and taking walks in nature for me

[@Das_Unterstrich]

10:35 Reddit literally has ads, an NFT shop, a premium subscription and the option to purchase awards, which are basically all money printing machines. When they still can't make money then its absolutely their fault.

[@MrNeosantana]

Also, the fact that the site is completely infested with bots which exploded after the API disaster. Oh, yeah, the fuckers are putting multiple ads between COMMENTS now.

[@NGAllAmericanBadass]

@@MrNeosantana That fact makes me glad I only use reddit on desktop and use adblockers. making sure those assholes are making the least amount of money off me as possible.

[@taibasarovadil]

and redditards will happily pay for all of this

[@k90v85]

@@taibasarovadil noone buys it lol, its basically only ads and selling data

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

Awards are gone because Reddit hates making money

[@handson4580]

its going to be insane when the internet becomes so un-usable and corporate garbage we all will return to librarys and going outside

[@81banga]

That sounds much more sane to me 😂

[@niko5008]

Honestly that's my plan once I turn into an adult and not keep getting forced to use instagram and other social media by friends. Kinda like disconnecting from that part of the world but reconnecting with the f'ing grass

[@kerrimoffatt2931]

If you want to do that noe you can! Don't let them pressure you :) don't keep doing something you hate just to keep up. If they are your friends they will understand:)

[@ArgzeroYT]

And then AI will take over book publishing and thus nothing is safe

[@richardspillers6282]

Oh I wish.

[@craw0967]

My biggest issue with Reddit doing this is that they want to act like they own all the content and should be paid for it, but they don't pay the authors for the rights to that content. They also don't take real responsibility for the content on their website. They are effectively charging for other people's content. Oh sure, you probably sign your life away with the TOS when you post to the site, I don't know, I don't have an account there, but people are sharing other people's ideas and content constantly. And sure, you can say that Reddit isn't charging for the content, they're charging to access and read the content, but that's a bit like making a bootleg copy of a Bluray and then renting it out.

[@Boz1211111]

Most acurate comment i seen today

[@kalebdavis7080]

remember gallowboob stealing content to flip and sell it, while being a mod/admin

[@milklordnomadic]

Basically Goodwill

[@SL4RK]

Literally all AI startups are DMCA violations, the only difference is that corporations can do it with impunity, or up to a certain point, while you as a content creator can't use small snippets of films to quote in your material.

[@SL4RK]

Literally all AI startups are copyright violations, the only difference is that corporations can do it with impunity, or up to a certain point, while you as a content creator can't use small snippets of films to quote in your material.

[@WarkWarbly]

Introducing the Dead Reddit Theory. Whenever google gets intimate with another company they typically get consumed. My guess is they'll combine Gemini and Reddit and call it raymond

[@jamesclarkson156]

Just one more product in the Graveyard.

[@marcogenovesi8570]

Considering how all the times Google's AI posted bs it was found out they just ripped off a shhaitpost on reddit, that's probably going to implode Google for good

[@ScarySox]

I logged out of Reddit and am read only now, the quality of comments is dire! (looking at you /pcmasterrace, how dare I promote budget gaming/PCs!)

[@shadowpoetrk]

As a Raymond I am insulted.

[@Colddirector]

It's honestly incredible how the dead internet theory wasn't even wrong, it was just ahead of its time.

[@Reid2816]

Don't forget that discord is killing forums. It is worse for both finding and preserving information.

[@TheVampireFishQueen]

Forums are making a come back.

[@slowyourroll1146]

​@@TheVampireFishQueenwhich forums?

[@YourLocalMedic]

On one hand i hate this on the other hand i fucking hate forums

[@gen2mediainc.577]

one place for everything is much easier, or so people think. If there were no barriers or monopolized websites, we would all share links to different sites instead of inviting people to a new server within the same app. Same effort, really.

[@jimmer411]

Tapatalk killed forums. Thankfully they are coming back

[@Mr.Spongecake]

I'm getting sick of hearing big companies say they're doing honestly ANYTHING "for our protection and security".

[@PhilipJFry-qh2jg]

They learned during the COVID years they could use "for your protection and safety" as the blanket excuse for anything (limited hours, high prices, low stock, etc) and they'd get away with it. No one called them out

[@vegbeg9170]

@@PhilipJFry-qh2jg That's far from the worst people did. Governments across the world learned they could discard your rights with ease.

[@PhilipJFry-qh2jg]

@@vegbeg9170 that too

[@IAmTerminallyBored]

>Claims this change has nothing to do with their Google deal. Revokes indexing privilege to everyone but Google >Says this is to protect Reddit data from AI Google is allowed to use this data for AI. Wonderful. Glad I stopped using Reddit. I wasted too much time on it. Though I will concede that I have gotten good info from that site. Still a decent amount of info among the slop.

[@OutLanderUSN]

As with most things now, you can't just browse, because you'll get absolutely hammered with a bunch of bullshit. You have to go into it knowing exactly what you're looking for, or else you're not ever going to get anywhere.

[@Skobeloff...]

Reddit can be useful, even without an account. It is probably better that way since you cannot waste your time replying to bad advice, dodgy people etc. Like the rest of the internet, everything on reddit should be taken with a large grain of salt.

[@SayAhh]

I miss when pic subreddit turned into sexy John Oliver subreddit during the API peaceful protest

[@LightSilver7]

I'm still gonna use reddit, it's still very useful to giving me accurate or leads to certain information. Until it becomes useless, can't say I have worry. Bummer what they do but doesn't affect me. Or does it? Well if it ever does then i won't use it, simple as that.

[@macethorns1168]

Yeah but imagine an AI trained on Reddit content. JFC.

[@GregsKitchen]

I never click on anything with 'sponsored' next to it, I just scroll a bit further and click on the exact same thing further down the search.

[@jessvagnar4957]

It's really not enough anymore. Asking basic technical questions leads to loads of AI generated bs when it comes to a lot of common topics. DIY, repair, etc. is overrun with crap basic domains with incorrect content.

[@paulee56]

Domino cheeseburger results... Just watched, thx from Qld OZ

[@micahnightwolf]

I use ublock origin. Too many websites on the internet are unusable without it.

[@dakota9821]

@@jessvagnar4957 It's really easy to tell AI slop from actual technical info. The best way is the posted date.

[@roberthopek8726]

​@@jessvagnar4957 There's 2 extensions that make google somewhat usable again: "Bye Bye, Google AI" and "Google Search ad remover". It still gets censored whenever google has a political leaning but at least the AI and sponsored links are removed so you only get the "results".

[@SGCSmith]

The death of the old Internet has been very apparent and stark over the past 5-6 years. I'm noticing in general that the Internet is no longer a fun, and interesting place to hang out on. It's spam, scam, hacks, and name calling. I don't like the paywall and login wall route that big corporations have been taking services into, either.

[@someguy4252]

that and when someplace does manage to start recapturing the old days or just is unique enough like magic bots and bad actors apear and start spamming cheese pizza and brigading...

[@4amSunset]

@@someguy4252 spam and trolls have been around since the IRC days. As long as a community doesn't go "mainstream," moderation could still work.

[@verygoodbrother]

@@4amSunset But not to the level that we currently experience.

[@Christoff070]

All by design. The gl0bal1st elit3s want full control over everything u do, starting with the internet and ending with a cashless society, once enough stop paying in cash

[@UselessKnowbody]

Every aspect of life for average people is under attack. Housing, inflation, the internet, we are trapped and the walls are closing in on all sides. It's a rich mans world, and the majority of the population are being taxed out of it. It won't be long until this translates into actual mass depopulation.

[@kirbyyasha]

I miss the old Internet. Used to run a web forum for cars, users donated $10, 20, which added up, kept hosting, domain, and licensing going. Then everyone migrated to Facebook or Reddit. All that data is gone. Internet Archive has almost nothing saved. I kept it going out of pocket for a few years, but then gave up as the users quit showing up because OMG BETTER STUFF! Some of that data did include component-level repair for cars, preventing users from having to just buy a new part like the manufacturer would suggest.

[@shinyrayquaza9]

What were you hosting with? You could have downloaded the files of the site onto your pc.

[@goldbrick2563]

Could you have set up a page on facebook? Even so, you'd lose the ability to run ads on your own site to earn income if moved to 3rd party platform

[@MarcCastellsBallesta]

So many cases like yours. Tge government of my region used to give some web hosting to teachers. The amount of useful resources was beyond huge. Last year they said they were going to close these sites. Security issues tgey said. They are almost basic html! They are a government. They must have enough resources to keep an archive of these websites. I haven't checked if they are still available. I hope they are. I must learn how to scrape as many as possible before they disappear.

[@shinyrayquaza9]

@@MarcCastellsBallesta I think its less a cost and more whoever was in charge of them hated maintaining them, happened at my uni

[@stisoisfnr7769]

Reddit is not the worst site this can happen to, but I m afraid that this can spread to 4 other sites, specific 2. If that happens, omg, ppl helping ppl, or you find good help on hard stoff, will then might be hard.

[@PopStrikers]

The Internet is quickly becoming not a place, but a series of products, and I hate it.

[@MidlifeRenaissanceMan]

The road to hell is paved with convenience….on a monthly subscription

[@quikgold513]

*Cough* Inconvenience

[@thegoodsmaster]

Life becomes so convenient that the only inconvenience is ourselves

[@merlin_V2]

​@@quikgold513for your convenience we have made the word inconvenience mean convenience in our tos. Thank you for the positive feedback.

[@shawdou3327]

That is completely contradicted. If ppl would pay monthly subscription for using of reddit, they would not need to get money in any other way. Everyone is angry, but it is what it is. If you want something for free then you are the product and they have to make money on you somehow. Simple as that.

[@merlin_V2]

@@shawdou3327 They have awards. Which you can pay for.

[@JBManos-gg2zm]

Google prioritizes sites that have google ads on them. They’ve been doing that for years now. What they’ve done is black hole the awesome free sites that used to have useful information.

[@TurboLoveTrain]

Google prioritizes censorship.

[@TurboLoveTrain]

@@3nertia Pretty clear you don't know what capitalism is. Common problem with Redditers.

[@cloudycolacorp]

I noticed even google images is mostly product pages now, everything is just eating itself to get more profits

[@blabberblabbing8935]

The tech companies have become oligo-monopolies. Yet they are utilities. So they should either become state owned subsidized utilities or get sold in smaller independent entities in order to eliminate the oligo-monopolies.

[@vincei4252]

@@TurboLoveTrain The idiot leaves exactly the same comment everywhere.

[@colt5189]

Google has been terrible for 10-15 years when they started showing results for words that are adjacent to your search terms instead of showing results based solely on your search terms.

[@selda2528]

so damm true

[@desperateloner8555]

I'm not sure about "the old days" since I havent using internet for not that long yet, but from my experience using google in this past 15 years, I can tell the've been improving a lot since. Also, if you really want get the exact terms result as your keyword you can use double quote between your words or sentence

[@colt5189]

@@desperateloner8555 I've been on the internet since the mid-90's, which was when I first found out about it.

[@unspeakableoaf]

Since 2019, I noticed they started to associate with antonyms. Doesn't matter if I quote specific phrases to try to steer the results, because the existence of a word will completely ignore "not" or "without". I started using DuckDuckGo back then, which of course devolved just as much over the years. But even though my search results are crap, at least it's somewhat ethically sourced crap.

[@Jack-cr6iw]

@@desperateloner8555that does work anymore neither does putting a dash

[@arFolF]

Lets not forget: Reddit is also actively selling its user's data to Google (since Feb. '24) and OpenAI (since May '24) to train their models.

[@RoastCDuck]

Lmao I made a AI text shit cry once, it cried on all caps until it reached max letter count all because I could go to another website instead than making a program that writes 10,000 words per second like (according to said AI text shit) it was able to, the behavior we see in modern AI text is literally thanks to reddit, pretentious, egoistic, too long to ready syndrome.

[@Bloxed]

@@RoastCDuck Lol. Which model was this? I take it probably Google?

[@RoastCDuck]

@@Bloxed It was based off that Lama model (The peru Lama) whatever the fuck it was named. But sadly big shit companies lobotomized the ai so it would stop arguing against people like some redditard... nowadays it just goes "I can't do that" type of answer... I will miss the day you could make them cry and throw tantrums...

[@ianflanders5096]

The problem with sites like Reddit is not that they're losing money. It's that they're not making record profits every single quarter. They don't just have to break even, they have to exceed the previous quarter in order to satisfy their fiduciary duty to their stockholders.

[@nunyabidness3075]

They don’t though. Traditionally, if you have a company that has steady returns, you create a dividend. You can then get happy investors by returning the same profits year after year.

[@spacesoup6797]

fuck going public

[@mrminecraft4772]

@@nunyabidness3075 reddit, like twitter, investors care about politics more than anything else. many big American companies are like this

[@jamesmurphy449]

@@nunyabidness3075 If any investor was *ever* happy with steady profits, we wouldn't have ended up here.

[@uss-dh7909]

Fiduciary duty... Been seeing that word alot this past year. :J

[@dalyxia]

Internet from before was the internet before monetization happened. It was based on hobbies and interests and for fun. Then people found out they could make money on the internet.

[@markbrown8097]

AOL killed the internet.

[@kesamek8537]

It was the Internet before normies.

[@braindeveloperdimensional5579]

It was so informative. I found so much valuable knowledge in just one page of internet archives that I would probably have to look through a couple of books, journals and web pages and even then they don't amount to the concise and formulated easy to understand layout that one page from internet achieves provides.

[@gianttigerfilms]

Old KZbin, guys it didn't have advertisements on videos. They were next to the video and went away if you opened full screen

[@hoffybeefe]

Exactly. The moment the 'net became mainstream is when the internet was killed slowly by a billion cuts. Always the way.. when something becomes mainstream.... the dedicated lovers of said thing get over run by tossers that don't give a rats ass and just want to use the good will to scam and "get rich quick". Internet. Video Games. Movies. Music. List goes on.

[@Shaki010]

The dead internet theory is becomeing more and more true daily there’s prolly already 40 bots commenting rn

[@Shaki010]

If you are seeing this, Do. Your. Part. Report every bot you see for spam it takes 2 seconds let’s fix this shit hole

[@aj.j5833]

@@Shaki010 They don't care. I see same bots that i've reported and know many others who have months later still.

[@kevinerbs2778]

​@@Shaki010bring back viewable thumbs down without extentions.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

Always. Unless you're shadowbanned and ghosted. In that case, NOTHING will come through. Nothin'.

[@Shaki010]

@@aj.j5833this mentality is why nothing changes if we revolt then we can make change

[@rttt4958]

the enshitification is getting worse and worse each passing day until there's nothing left to ruin

[@Napert]

How did you link a word to do a yt search? A little magnifying glass popped up next to "enshittification" which was highlighted in blue and when I clicked it it showed me the search results for that word

[@phattjohnson]

@@Napert Probably just spyware on your phone / PC.

[@slitheen3]

​@@Napert I've noticed this happening randomly in other comments within the last few days, but I dont see it on this one. It didn't seem intentional in those comments, so I think it's youtube adding that automatically for some reason

[@notlNSIGHT]

@@slitheen3TikTok does that too. But that's been a thing for a while

[@KamikazeCommie501]

welcome to globalism: where there's always another moron to buy your garbage product.

[@DoveringFifths]

The one thing I really miss about the old internet is that when the search said 178000 results ... you got 178000 results. Not just 3 pages of results repeated endlessly.

[@mightylink65]

Game Faq's are still around, they're still updating, they have newer information but... Google always shows Fandom instead, because Fandom shows way more ads than Game Faq's.

[@BigDaddyLongdick-n4f]

Long live GameFaqs!

[@conspiracypanda1200]

Fandom Wiki sucks farts. So many people have taken all their information and made actual wikis of their own that aren't hosted on Fandom! The Minecraft community is a big one, and Digimon and Transformers have had way better sites of their own for ages over the trash Fandom pages that basically copy>paste all their info and miss chunks regardless.

[@Cthulch]

The big difference between reddit and those small cozy forums is that the old forums (some of them still exist) had multiple smaller owners. Some were shitheads, some were decent. At some point the corporate noticed those forums and started creeping in. Stack Overflow, Quora, Reddit. Whatever. And the problem with larger corps is that they don't represent the vision of one person, they represent the vision of their board of directors. And the board, once it goes IPO, starts to targeting the stock price more and more. There. That is your root of evil. Every publicly traded corp can just shove its mission statement into its ass and state the truth: "we want our stock go up and quickly"

[@belstar1128]

some of the forums were quite bad like neogaf so at least with reddit if you got banned of one you could still use the other subs but with forums you needed another account

[@ChristopherCricketWallace]

nailed it

[@wylser]

10 years ago I was still discovering new websites from searches and bookmarking them. Nowadays I'm lucky if I get some relevant results in the first page.

[@jnap8553]

These days I legit get more tips from word of mouth.

[@belstar1128]

if i find something that isn't very bad i also bookmark it but they often get shut down .in the 2000s i didn't do this because there was so much stuff out there if one was down there was always an alternative

[@alicianieto2822]

I have slightly obscure interests so by 2018 it was already impossible to find anything. Sure, romanesque art may not be mainstream but no way there us no blong on the entire web with sn srtivle about this particular tefm! Snd yet it was imposdible ti find them

[@Jombo1]

I've legitimately gone back to looking up things in books since search results are such shit now.

[@Lmnop913]

SAME!!

[@TheKingWhoWins]

We've come so far

[@osirisgolad]

This is what I call (in)convenience siloing. A good 95% of people don't care about things like quality, security, freedom or efficiency; as long as it's slightly more convenient, they'll prefer whatever that is without considering those other factors. You can also stuff people into your silo by indirectly making the alternatives less convenient, in this case a good example would be that 95% of people find it inconvenient to have lots of forum accounts rather than one Reddit account, and so they stop using independently hosted fora.

[@phr3ui559]

ok

[@alicianieto2822]

Most of us are desoerately looking fir a distraction from housing prices to avojd suicide, dont be too hard on us

[@ryank6322]

Right. The reason the internet sucks so bad is because the average normie is now online all the time which was not the case before smartphones. The average human being is not a good person.

[@CompressionPolice]

How we ended up in a world where a consumer's time and data are free to take and sell is baffling. Why is the compensation at the mercy of the collector?

[@UselessKnowbody]

How did we end up in a world where people tolerated slavery, and thieves had their hands chopped off? The world has always been ruled by tyrants and the evil soldiers who follow them. The masses have always been complacent with most people not having the virtue or common sense to ban together and make a better society. For a brief time things got better, but the apocalypse is just around the corner.

[@Po0ka]

Internet has become so corporate it's nauseating... A decade ago i've made a presentation about how Google is invasive and is taking over everything; now it's way worse. I can kick and cry as much as i want about those kind of issues, nobody around me is going to change for "my mild inconveniences". As a programmer, my passion is nearly gone; living in a cabin in the woods is always more appealing as years go by. (watch google suggesting me "living off-grid" videos after this post)

[@SL4RK]

My thoughts, I think back to what the internet and society used to be like and it gets sad how much things have changed in 10+ years....

[@InMyBunker]

It’s late stage

[@Moe_Posting_Chad]

YOU CAN NOT PLAY BACK YARD MINECRAFT AND EXPECT TO ESCAPE THE TENTACLES OF THE SYSTEM! THEY WILL FIND YOU THEY WILL NOT LEAVE YOU ALONE! THERE IS LITERALLY NO ESCAPE! ACCEPT THAT AND THEN ORGANIZE WITH ME! WE SHALL ORGANIZE AS WE THE PEOPLE! ONLY WE THE PEOPLE CAN PUT AN END TO THE INSANITY! JUST SCREAMING I GOT MINE AND PLAYING IN YOUR LITTLE JUNGLE GYM OFF GRID HOME WILL ONLY ENSURE THE WOLF EATS YOU LAST! THAT IS NO LIFE! THAT IS NO ASPIRATION! THAT IS NO WAY TO LIVE!

[@Moe_Posting_Chad]

"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

[@aj.j5833]

If they don't want me find their webpage with alternative search engine, then I don't want to see and use their webpage and products.

[@DarkForce2024]

I feel the same way, also with Ad Block. If the site won't let me view it unless I turn off my Ad Block then I'll find my information elsewhere.

[@Andreluis-tg9hj]

Problem is that most of the useful information is on reddit nowadays. Or else you're mostly just gonna see worthless ai generated garbage

[@aj.j5833]

@@Andreluis-tg9hj Most of stuff on reddit is past and copy none sense that is completely wrong. They can't even tell you basic information such as what the difference between a Shovel and a Spade is.

[@Boz1211111]

Reddit is useful and ceo probably knows that and thats why he going to abuse that

[@aj.j5833]

@@Boz1211111 Reddit can't even tell you difference between a shovel and spade.

[@jmw1982blue]

I believe in an open internet but... Reddit never fails to gaslight.

[@CubicIronPyrite]

If you're interested in hormone replacement therapy transition pictures and anything LGBT, boy oh boy Reddit front page is for you. Reddit has become a curated list of topics from far Left employees, not a true upvote/downvote system based on true interest everyone visiting the site.

[@yosutzuhruoj]

​@@CubicIronPyriteBecause the people on there hate humans

[@Skasaha_]

@@CubicIronPyrite What the hell are you high on? Not a single r/all post right now is like that, and it's pretty rare outside of news when someone attacks them. Bigots have no place on on the internet.

[@uzlonewolf]

@@CubicIronPyrite You guys are still spreading nonsensical lies I see.

[@TheCatherineCC]

@@CubicIronPyrite I'm sorry that despite your best efforts, you're not able to restrain yourselves and act in a way that wouldn't make mini PR disasters for companies who advertise there. The bar of "civility" is a low one.

[@EpicMathTime]

The evolution of the internet is fascinating. It appears to be highly analogous to a physical landscape being discovered and colonized, beginning with sparse outposts, eventually forming towns across the country side, and then eventually consolidating into giant cities.

[@JC-jz6rx]

This explains my recent recommendations on the indie website. I program all day every day. Web applications and backend server systems. The current state of the internet is soul crushing. I miss the days when the internet was a craft, a passion , an outlet. I miss web rings and how real people created their digital self personified onto websites. I miss when I could find useful content rather than the filtered SEOd to shit useless garbage that Google wants to shove down my throat. Thank you for covering this. In the digital age preserving atleast SOME aspect of our freedom on the internet I think is similar to preserving our monuments. It being less physically tangible doesn’t make it any less true.

[@AmericanLocomotive1]

I feel like Discord deserves to be mentioned in this too. It has the exact same issues and concerns. Tons of very important and useful discussions are happening on Discord. It's not indexable or searchable. It's all controlled by a single entity, and when Discord eventually closes their doors, all of the content on its servers go with it too

[@hermitxIII]

A lot of people in the video game modding/hacking scene horde all their files and documentation on discord these days. It's unbelievable. To be frank, I assume they know better and are doing this for petty reasons, such as attention or the sadistic pleasure of forcing people to crawl into their servers.

[@-lord1754]

​@@hermitxIIITbf from what ive seen a lot of the stuff they horde are links to different drive files and stuff lol. Like nintendo homebrew discord

[@cinderwolf32]

​@@hermitxIII I doubt that's a consideration. It's probably more about convenience

[@cinderwolf32]

I hate when I'm asked to join a discord server or watch a video for information. I want everything as accessible text guides.

[@stuartlaird7341]

@@hermitxIII It's not sadism it's just convenient and also where their community is, they think. It is not thinking about what might happen if Discord gets sold and stripped or the fact that someone has to create an account to access the content. They just assume that everyone has an account already, just like people assume you have a Facebook and Instagram account.

[@voidtransmits]

My dads oven sings now.. I hate it so much. Gas ranges DONT NEED IOT OR FIRMWARE UPDATES.

[@unspeakableoaf]

My washing machine is an LG with some weird, proprietary, sound-based communication protocol. At least there's no risk of it connecting to wi-fi, but the next model does. Why the hell would you even need that? You're not downloading your clean clothes anyway!

[@Sam-Cain]

I haven't used reddit since they A; stopped third party apps from existing and B; blocked *viewing* the site with a VPN.

[@ultimate9056]

Wait what. Can you give me details about the second one as I haven't personally experienced that when using Proton VPN

[@mkuhnactual]

@@ultimate9056 Doesn't always happen, but they make an effort to block VPN's.

[@ThatMattWhite]

If you're not logged in, they'll block you, at least on all of the non-residential IPs I tried.

[@Adolf1Extra]

You can use 3rd party applications, you just have to provide your own auth key. I'm still using rif to browse on my phone.

[@AtheismF7W]

​@ultimate9056 yep, blocks PIA.

[@Drakkon-c9r]

My question is, where is the FTC? They're supposed to prevent effective monopolies like this from happening in the first place.

[@SlavTiger]

bought and paid for

[@TheVampireFishQueen]

Contact them.

[@sandtrick]

Trump's supreme Court is neutering them

[@D.von.N]

Having access to internet 20 years ago was still a sort of a privilege. Many didn't have that. I remember I had to travel 30km to an internet cafe to connect with the wider world. Precious times they were, indeed.

[@Account.for.Comment]

Yes, I remember having the internet as a joy. Now, it is a requirement to get a job, any form of communication, to live, and a surveillance device.

[@D.von.N]

@@Account.for.Comment or to get benefits, at least in the UK. You are broke but you have to have a smartphone to manage your benefits. Or go to the library and feel lucky that yours wasn't shut down due to the lack of funding. And then there are ignorants verbally spitting on you that you aren't that poor when you have a smartphone. Seen it so many times.

[@Account.for.Comment]

@@D.von.N Yeah, a requirement to live. And my parent don't even know how to use email. Oh, what happened when Google went bankrupt. How many important records are in the cloud (somebody else computer) these days? Even illiterate people in the third world need smartphone just to function in society, while having no ideas on how to use emails or passwords.

[@Matt-jc2ml]

Where did you live? Rural Afghanistan?

[@D.von.N]

@@Matt-jc2ml Rural Europe. Average household didn't have internet in 2004.

[@elitemook4234]

This must be what getting old feels like. Having to watch as things slowly get worse and listen as people too young to know better call it progress.

[@M167A1]

Yep

[@dimse_8066]

nah, thats just juvenoia

[@DanielMYT]

And doing nothing in the first place to try and prevent these problems from occurring before they reach the point where they affect the people who wouldn't have been old enough to change it before that time.

[@dakota9821]

@@dimse_8066 While it is a trope as old as time "Old people blame young people", it's actually not that far from the truth these days. The most easily brainwashed are gen Z.

[@TRexHeliPilot]

Pretty much sums it up

[@oni-one574]

Spez was a moderator of the jailbait subreddit. Meta, Reddit, Google, have ruined the internet.

[@JackSparrowTheCAPTAIN]

uNeXpEcTed

[@amine7]

back then anyone could add you as a mod without confirmation. but whatever you say... f spez

[@oni-one574]

@@amine7 He could have left and closed it for the 2 years he modded it...

[@RickR69]

​@@amine7he and the other admins knew about its existence and kept it up for YEARS though. These people are ok with pedophilia as long as it drives traffic and doesn't cause too much of a stir. The second it came into the mainstream and started making them look bad they took it down. Not any sooner.

[@uiopuiop3472]

my company wants to release industrial plc programming software on steam how do i talk them out of it help pls

[@gingerbeargames]

if only we could go back to a time where we could search for something and all the results wouldn't be reddit

[@ChickenPizza]

Ironically, the most useful results on Google often end up being Reddit posts.

[@cosmicwerewolf1504]

​@@ChickenPizzawhat I was gonna say. I end up putting "reddit" after everything I searched because otherwise it isn't my issue

[@Skobeloff...]

because yahoo answers was oh so awesome 🤔

[@hertzwave8001]

@@Skobeloff... >quora

[@Skobeloff...]

@@hertzwave8001 quiet, it may hear you

[@CZsWorld]

I resonated with this so much. The continual screwing us over and then other companies coming in and doing the same is something that I've been thinking about a lot, but you put it into words perfectly.

[@Grungefan2018]

Sites that popped up regularly even 6 years ago are gone. I get the same boring ad driven generic pages that I use to scroll past . It’s so depressing

[@watsonspuzzle]

It was amazing what you could deep-dive search on Google. It's not even close to what it was. You can't even find a cache of pages, anymore.

[@marcohidalgo1101]

There's a Chrome extension that allows you to see Google's cached URLs.

[@AlloffroadAu]

very true, mate, google search in itself has become useless

[@patbrown463]

Absolutely useless.

[@qactustick]

I disagree. Google's still the best search engine to use to find what you're looking for. Just based on the notion that if Google doesn't show it, no other search engine is going to show it either.

[@magoleo-pr7if]

Nah, Google is unusable because any decent search results are buried under promoted and popular sites or google's search bias

[@shmayazuggot8558]

I ended up having to build my own relays and node red app to get away from being connected to the internet to control household appliances. The corporate greed will end up melting society. Blood red greed!!!

[@kolbhk2]

It's like the net became a pool of endless junk mail.

[@happyfriend703]

so true!

[@daviddavidson2357]

Imagine if there was an imageboard where you got immediate answers to your questions because of a huge userbase and no sign up required, not even a captcha and it moved so fast that no search engine would bother even logging the traffic on there. That used to exist. Now it's dead too, it even has an archive site for top threads, making it reddit tier.

[@64bitmodels66]

4chan?

[@daviddavidson2357]

@@64bitmodels66 There are other boards, but that was what I was thinking of. Pity it's dead too now. Whole Internet is shit these days.

[@lilshawty2605]

4 Chan died? I assumed it was still doing well. It did become quite a bit more popular in the mainstream

[@marcogenovesi8570]

Getting Effed with Louis Rossman, the current video series continues

[@johnpienta4200]

I'm still so mad at reddit for their closing the API for payola. I get it, you can't be satisfied picking a niche and doing it well and making a reasonable profit. It must always be more. Your fiduciary duty is to pursue full enshittification, always. Abuse the millions of people who are essentially doing free work for you, reduce access to the platform, sell their work, after claiming it as your own in a 1200 page EULA. Then treat the people who protest your bullshit like spoiled kids throwing a tantrum. I hope they get what they deserve.

[@39bailey]

So many websites solely exist to sell ad space, sure there is useful information sometimes after you scroll past 40 ads & paragraphs of useless jargon.

[@Moon_Presence]

My Ad blocker on my phone that I have had since March, blocked over 1 billion ads and saved me over a terabyte of data usage....

[@fireradfieritis8953]

@@Moon_Presence What do you use?

[@NONOOBZ4EVR]

Remember when going on the internet was special and legitimately useful? Remember good quality things? Remember companies with some degree of standards and ethics?

[@NONOOBZ4EVR]

Pepperridge Farms remembers

[@aka_Lazer]

Googles search results have gotten so bad. I imagine they're interested in reddit searches because they see how popular reddit:*insert question here* because otherwise your question isn't gonna get fkn answered with googles trash results.

[@DeusExRequiem]

this is like having a government that doesn't have high taxes but every road has a tollbooth and any new maps need to pay so they can print the shape of the road.

[@ArgentVive]

I am genuinely curious how the internet is going to evolve in the coming decades. I can't imagine that it's ever going away entirely - at least not in any of our lifetimes - but I also can't imagine that it will have any real use to individuals. It's all just marketing now, advertising. You can buy useless garbage to your heart's content... but it's almost impossible to find reliable information on basically any topic.

[@marcogenovesi8570]

just look at what TV/Cable has become. mostly ads with some sports or propaganda or reality shows on the side

[@jessvagnar4957]

Maybe we'll see a bit of a resurgence of subscriptions onto traditional media again. Hobby magazines, curated magazines, etc.

[@snappertrx]

It will become a mandatory government connection that you will be unable to alter or turn off. It will become illegal to try to avoid tracking or monitoring at all times and every website will be monitored and scrubbed for "illegal information". If you want to know the future, just look at entertainment. They tell us what they want through entertainment.

[@paperpersona1243]

Itll just be storefronts and only a small section of the population will be able to use it to collect information.

[@CarrotConsumer]

It's incredibly easy to find useful information about most topics.

[@sxanity]

Sometimes when I search something it will only give me one page of results. Back in the day search results would go on forever

[@LiveType]

Try searching for "potato chip" and going as far as you can go in the search results. I just did and noticed Google removed the amount of index matches and query time. Might be A/B tasting but that's a little sad. Anyways Google will only serve you ~500 results at a maximum and no more because accessing more becomes very expensive as it goes off caches and starts reading the main database directly. You'll also notice it devolves into nothing but KZbin videos after the seo spam. So while that million of matches might be true you can't access it. Not even close. Google only surfaces a tiny portion of the Internet it scrapes per query. The depth while real is largely an illusion with Google.

[@somewhatstrange2097]

It's really infuriating. And it actually says something "200,000 results found", but they're only going to let you see the first page. And you just know that with their garbage algorithms, the thing you're searching for would be on page 20 or so, long after the results arbitrarily cut out.

[@lymphomasurvive]

@@somewhatstrange2097And you used to be able to get to page 20. Now it’s all the same ads until it won’t let you scroll anymore.

[@serasaurusrex]

Can you imagine if any small website tried to charge google to be indexed? Google would just cancel them and move on.

[@blizzardregulus]

Reddit is actually shit for answering questions, they're just slowly being pushed as the only game in town. Something I've noticed over the past 5 years is that Google started almost exclusively listing Reddit responses (probably in preparation for this sweetheart monopoly deal) in the top half of their search results. Before that I would get a large spread of results related to my topic. Now? If a redditor didn't specifically ask the question or topic I search for, I get a list of 10 reddit threads tangentially related to my search, plus a bunch of SEO word salad articles that waste my time and don't address the topic of my search, and I'm not some Tiktok-poisoned Zoomer. I grew up during the transition of web2.0. I KNOW how to search for things on the Internet. Google is intentionally burying the useful search results because the ones that pay them or work with them get the top page slots.

[@kamikaze5528]

Once in a lifetime ago, I took some pride from knowing how to find whatever I wanted with Google search. Now you can't find crap regardless of the keywords I use. A search engine that doesn't find what you want is a shit search engine. Duck Duck Go is not great as 2012 Google, but at least I can find some relevant results. Today's Google? not a chance.

[@notlNSIGHT]

I've had better results with Bing lately compared to Google

[@zeldazackman]

Duckduckgo scrapes directly from google and has the same results, just with delayed results due to how their caching is so you won't see the latest flood of SEO spam. If you want to really search for stuff yandex, startpage, brave, and ecosia are all good choices and you don't see any of the chatgtp SEO articles that are flooding google these days.

[@matteoorlandi856]

Also Google Is blocking 90% of my gun-related searchs, all legal stuff, while fuck fuck go Is not.

[@oompalumpus699]

​@@matteoorlandi856 I worked for a bank. Our system automatically blocked gun-related purchases.

[@matteoorlandi856]

@@blableu4519 LOOOOOOOOOL

[@AshnSilvercorp]

well, here's good internet news. Amazon just got determined by the Consumer protection agency in the US that they do indeed have to monitor and remove harmful items. Of course they want to appeal...

[@MosoKaiser]

Let me guess... Bezos & gang's argument will surely be _"we shouldn't be held responsible, we're just providing a marketplace platform, not selling the harmful shit ourselves."_ 🙄

[@sianais]

You ever find random items priced unbelievably high, there? It's not bulk, just singular items. I'm 90% sure it's for some criminal purposes.

[@nowster]

​@@sianaisThat can be competing pricing algorithms going rogue. Or it can be a retailer who hasn't got the item in stock at the moment but doesn't want to take down the listing.

[@blackrifle6736]

@@sianais *Have seen them also on eBay. Might be a money laundering gambit.*

[@alexm6193]

The flipside of "Reputation management" is customer support being so god damn bad you literally have to slam them on social media, otherwise there is no "support". I have used twitter once in my life, it was not by my choice.

[@EternalKhann]

When most people already gave up on these issues, you were the one that stood up. We all need to do the same. Please keep up the good fight, Louis!

[@TR-sg4nw]

12:55 You hit the nail on the head , people either keep forgetting or literally were born and have no idea about their rights as a consumer. A large majority of the public simply accepts the standard set by companies and goes along becuase this is how things are now and they dont really think about it much more than that. So many bad things exist and THRIVE because of this and it feels insane how relatively few people aknowledge and point it out.

[@sirdiealott]

I'm so with you on washing machines. The first time I heard my mom's new one play a jingle, I was like "What in the actual fuck?"

[@MidlifeRenaissanceMan]

I like the gurgle gurgle of a pump motor sucking the last drops out of the tub followed by that solid CLUNK as the solenoid on the door opener

[@kyokazuto]

​@@MidlifeRenaissanceManhonestly any washing machine i know is loud enough to be heard in an entire flat so either that or the absence of noise is a clear indicator that it's finished. No fancy smart bs needed.

[@SayAhh]

You can turn them off (at least the one on the dryer).

[@TheChipMcDonald]

Our Samsung *almost* plays a melody I remember as a tyke, from a network tv news show from the 70s, "this is the evening news with Charles Kuralt"... And another melody that doesn't resolve, drives me nuts.

[@phattjohnson]

Especially when the neighbor's one finishes.. and the jingle sounds repeatedly for almost 20 minutes for some reason :P

[@stusue9733]

Oh remember newsgroups. If I remember correctly it was google that stuffed them up as well.

[@nowster]

It started when the sheer volume of binaries meant ISPs were reluctant to carry them. Then ISPs outsourced all that unprofitable server stuff (email, newsgroups) to the likes of Google or Yahoo.

[@ZEPRATGERNODT]

I just use the English version of Yandex… it’s not skewed to anything within the U.S. Better search engine and especially when using image search. I started using it since 2016 and let me tell you… It is quite amazing watching how search engines work during certain local and national events.

[@fookingsog]

Yep. I did a comparison between DDG, Brave and Yandex. Yandex was the *CLEAR* Winner!!!

[@punishthemeatpocket]

+1 for Yandex. Only decent site for reverse image search.

[@salamander0haze]

When you search a song from a band by keywords, it gives you 3 - 5 results based on the keywords and every other result is from your KZbin history

[@saab9251]

I realized this with Facebook groups a long time ago. It was awesome seeing old timer engine builders, camshaft grinders, head porters etc all in one place discussing topics and you knew they were legit. But then you immediately realize that facebooks search is TRASH. It’s all immediately lost content.

[@bat__bat]

Agreed that searching on Google for anything has become a different experience. They're now riding that line of seeing how much BS we'll actually put up with. Wish there was an alternative. One day there will be. Google will deserve their downfall. Reddit is and always has been an unnecessary middleman. Cancer.

[@robert5]

I am genuinely curious how the internet is going to evolve? Don't you mean DE-VOVLE?

[@estuardo2985]

what sucks is that even though there are "alternatives" they kind of given up and rely on google's data but add their flavor so to speak but at the very least they are somewhat less censored than mama leftish bear google.

[@notlNSIGHT]

Legitimately, even BING is better. And when you have people saying that BING is better than Google, that means that Google messed up as a search engine.

[@cabnbeeschurgr]

The govt/blackrock don't want their pet data collection corps to fail, so they'll just ride the monopoly until it's a walking corpse. And of course no competition will be allowed.

[@SL4RK]

@@notlNSIGHT They don't even have to put in any effort because google has done all the work for them.

[@treelineresearch3387]

Worst site on the internet for 10 years running.

[@peacemaker9807]

And yet it's become one of the remaining better places to find odd or one off knowledge on things that used to be easily found through other forums or entire specialized sites.

[@Foche_T._Schitt]

@@peacemaker9807 The sooner it removes itself from search results the better for small specialized forums. I already have to remove it using subtract sign, -reddit

[@treelineresearch3387]

​@@peacemaker9807 Not one of my go-to places. More often than not if I click a reddit result I just find redditors snarking at a person with a similar problem because they don't know the answer either, and redditors just have to act like redditors.

[@celeriumlerium8266]

I gave bing a real chance for a solid year, it is useless. Most of the time it just showed me results for things similar to what I searched for, but rarely the actual thing. It would misinterpret what I typed, and only show me results for that misinterpreation, and wouldn;t even give me a "did you mean" option. They also disabled advanced search features like "exact quotes" because users might "accidently miss out on results".

[@AnimeXFever54]

All these search engines suck but Google just happen to be usable from time to time

[@lymphomasurvive]

@@AnimeXFever54Yahoo was actually good until it partnered with Bing, then it became junk.

[@purdysanchez]

What sucks is that Google is already heavily manipulated, moderated, and filtered. So, even though the index it, you can't search the whole index. Essentially Reddit is just encouraging their content to be even more censored than it is on their own site.

[@wombatillo]

The internet is fracturing into different camps, paywalls are going up everywhere, search engines are getting worse by the month and everything is being monetized.

[@flightofapaullo72]

At some point, I'll be back to my Encyclopedia Britannica.

[@TheKingWhoWins]

We're all gonna turn into Gandalf looking Book Worms here really soon.

[@CyberKnight1]

I remember when news sites wanted to charge Google for indexing their sites for giving them traffic for free - even to the extent of trying to pass laws to require Google's payment. Fortunately, it didn't pass and Google could ignore it; but now that Reddit managed to pull it off, I can't help but wonder who's next.

[@TheVampireFishQueen]

Hopefully no one and Reddit has not managed to pull it off and will end up in court over this.

[@enginecrzy]

I’m Mad As Hell Speech From Network (1976)......“I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It’s a depression. Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel’s worth. Banks are going bust. Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there’s nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there’s no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that’s the way it’s supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They’re crazy. It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is: ‘Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.’ Well, I’m not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get MAD! I don’t want you to protest. I don’t want you to riot - I don’t want you to write to your congressman, because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you’ve got to get mad. (shouting) You’ve got to say: ‘I’m a human being, god-dammit! My life has value!’ So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell: ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’ I want you to get up right now. Sit up. Go to your windows. Open them and stick your head out and yell - ‘I’m as mad as hell and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’ Things have got to change. But first, you’ve gotta get mad!…You’ve got to say, ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’ Then we’ll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first, get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’

[@robozstarrr8930]

howdy doodly-doo, did i hear someone wants TOAST !?

[@raketensven3127]

The speech itself is the problem. No one want to be the first getting all bloody, breaking through a wall. Not even the speaker. He wants to rile other up, so they'll sacrifice. And people know this, that's why we're stuck.

[@JH-pt6ih]

But haven’t you heard? The 70’s were halcyon salad days where “boomers” just soaked in an easy lifestyle and there were no problems. None of these issues from corporate abuse to the “culture wars” to war protests to …. this all “really” didn’t start until 2014 or ‘15.

[@jellyrcw12]

Omfg I watched this movie for the first time this year. It's incredible

[@WellBeSerious12]

That 'mad'ness is one of many ways we got here in the first place. Human males being unchecked in power; always abusing it, always pretending to know what they're saying, creating false ideals to brainwash everyone (religion, politics, government) instead of forcing everyone to take accountability for their actions. As for events in America: this is one of the consequences of freedom: chaos. So Americans (and everyone else wanting a similar government/way of life) cannot be fully unrestrained, for that creates chaos/insanity. Humans must come together and logically (not emotionally) address major issues to the best of their abilities, work together to the best of their abilities, and change for the better. Or end all humanity. Make your choice, human.

[@moonasha]

man, I remember when reddit was libertarian and all about Ron Paul. Times have certainly changed. I miss forums a lot. The worst thing about reddit is a thread disappears after 1 or 2 days, causing a lot of reposts.

[@nathanhoxie4427]

Thanks for you unwavering dedication to the end-user and helping bring more awareness to shitty business practices like this. I have thoroughly enjoyed your videos for a long time and it's always amazing how much is shoved under the rug by corporations.

[@aaronmicalowe]

I remember the internet before Google existed, when Excite was the main webcrawling search engine. If Google wants to disappear behind a pay wall, I won't miss it. Buh bye Google. 👋

[@danielstoddart]

For me, it was AltaVista from 1995-1999. One of my friends learned to tie a necktie for his first job from following the directions he found on AltaVista.

[@Ludicrous_Speedway]

I've got a few of those musical appliances and I hate them too. It's like how dare you speak to me machine, just blink when you're done with the dishes or whatever.

[@applenrd]

Glad this video came out today. I was so frustrated trying to find a KZbin tutorial and I never remembered having so much trouble finding results on google 10 years ago. How did they go from a nearly perfect product to just shit?

[@SeanEustace-zk3mc]

Lots of passion I like it. The truth of what you’re saying is more important than how you said it you’re awesome guy.

[@JL_____]

11:28 "Can your failings just fuck with you" lmao 🤣🤣 true

[@kaseyboles30]

Reddit is seriously gotten a swollen head and think they're the new google and the new microsoft.

[@SayAhh]

Only cuz Google tries to be like AI askjeeves these days

[@kaseyboles30]

@@SayAhh And it all but ignores the old modifiers. Site: is the most dependable, but even then it'll grab stuff from amazon or imdb when I'm looking for repair instructions for an alternator. but +,-,"" "" and so on are mostly vague suggestions at best.

[@TheKingWhoWins]

Hate to see it

[@unspeakableoaf]

There was a time they blocked me from sorting threads without logging in. Dunno if they do that anymore, because now I just avoid the place as much as possible. I'm not making an account there. I already have too many accounts all over.

[@TheKingWhoWins]

@@unspeakableoaf Wdy sorting threads?

[@austenturbyne]

I filled out an FTC complaint when I heard about this I was using Bing and wondering why everything was so out of date

[@nerdful1]

I remember if you made your own webpage even from scratch and wanted to post other links to websites you like, NPR would get upset. I think they wanted you to get permission first or require payment.

[@mookiiieeee]

Doing the lords work. Thanks for being you Louis

[@imalittletoxicjustalittle]

wait so your telling me if i dont use google i won't get reddit tripe? im sold i hate reddit with a passion

[@techmouse.]

"It's a great big club and you're not in it." - George of the Jungle

[@blackrifle6736]

*George Carlin.*

[@techmouse.]

@@blackrifle6736 Ah, I see you're familiar with jokes.

[@WilliamSmith-hf8um]

Reddit became evil shockingly quickly

[@trowawayacc]

Their business goal is the same as braniac. 😂

[@tequilasunset4651]

I think they forgot the human

[@paladestar9758]

The founder with morals, Aaron Swartz, was quickly forced out then died. Spez then tried to remove Aaron from Reddit's history, made it all about himself and went full comic-book villain.

[@elishmuel1976]

Holy. This is the biggest F of them all so far: An internet for the poor and one for the rich, with access to a search engine that has indexed the most important pages of the web.

[@fedtsten]

Agree 100%, Louis. Great video. And glad that you're doing better!

[@svensson2576]

The companies have just noticed how quickly some people pay for any b***sh** and want to get everyone else to do the same.

[@Thiccolo]

the spirit of the internet is freedom of information, when it became corporatized by these Mega corps is when everything started to go downhill. KZbin is also in that spirit of freedom of information, at least it was before the algorithms, every video ever uploaded in good faith is indexed on this website. Reddit is probably hemorrhaging money, as to why they are doing this. and I am the only one who remembers how good Google search used to be? You could find anything then.

[@AtheismF7W]

Have you forgotten the great youtube purge?

[@JH-pt6ih]

@@scrittle lol (or col for “cry out loud”) how true this is. My first thought - not sure what they are talking about, am interested to find out, but don’t want to waste time searching for it. Yes, I could get a good search result quickly, but, I could also get Googled into a time hog.

[@depressedkermit5337]

Spez is such a cartoon villain that has way too much money and power for his own good.

[@TheOtherBill]

I think of him as a tiny Zuck.

[@EatsUsedTP]

I think there are more burner account lurkers on the internet than before. There are fewer and fewer people answering forum questions. People are starting to pull the ladder up with them when they successfully troubleshoot something instead of facilitating those behind them crossing the river they just forded.

[@TheCatherineCC]

The burner account lurkers are often the bots. Inexplicable, random moderation means all accounts have a shelf life, so why even bother creating a bot that posts from 1 account when account history and reputation have been rendered pointless. The big sites incentivize new accounts by allowing the creation of low effort new accounts because they can use the signups to promote the number of "new users" signing up to their site.

[@BarbokVA]

Considering the only way to have good search results is putting a "resdit" behind the question or asking chatgpt makes it make sense to me