I’ve noticed this even when trying to find the name of a song. I used to be able to search:

lyrics “a specific part of the song I remember” whatever random words I can remember out of order

and it would very reliably find songs, even obscure ones. Now the only way it works is if I happen to remember part of the name of the song, usually it’s full of entries for the same popular song that has one word in the title that I included that is definitely not what I’m looking for.

It sounds stupid, but I really miss that working.

That is likely true for a majority of “the good stuff”, but making that determination can be tricky. Let’s consider spam emails. In our daily lives they are useless, unwanted trash. However, it’s hard to know what a future historian might be able to glean from a complete record of all spam in the world over the span of a decade. They could analyze it for social trends, countries of origin, correlation with major global events, the creation and destruction of world governments. Sometimes the garbage of the day becomes a gold mine of source material that new conclusions can be drawn from many decades down the road.

I’m not proposing that we should preserve all that junk, it’s junk, without a doubt. But asking a person today what’s going to be valuable to society tomorrow is not always possible.

App can mine more data which is the real product.

/r/wellthatsucks has gone and it’s poetic.

Having trouble finding information about a reddit alternative called Tilde, it’s one of those words that is too open ended. Is this what they’re talking about?

Instance owners could update the descriptions on https://join-lemmy.org/instances to include a link to a “Who are we” kind of readme.

Ultimately I’m not sure any of the instances will look the same in a month.

You bring up an interesting point and it’s something that I’ve been wondering since I learned about lemmy and the federated structure; will it end up being more or less susceptible to bots and bad actors than reddit? I don’t have a prediction, I really don’t know. But if even a small percentage of the reddit userbase migrates and sticks around we’re going to find out because it’s going to become a target.

Thanks for posting this!

Thanks! Both of those give me “couldnt_find_community” 404 messages, but I’ve has some issues loading lemmy.ml, it might be my client.

Science Fiction, amateur radio, electronics… and maybe some equivalent of the popular (popcorn) subreddits; damnthatsinteresting, wtf, showerthoughts, TIL.

Ultimately I don’t know yet. I’m hoping to see some new stuff that I didn’t think to look for. Any topic can be interesting if people are passionate and not toxic.