Maybe it is just me, but when reddit pops up in my search results (and since I am using Kagi it ranks quite often to the top) the topics are mostly useless to help me solve an issue or extract information. The threads are often outdated, and littered with personal opinions up to outright opinions and personal anectada. Compared to Q/A sites like StackExchange, the quality of information - at least for me - is very poor. Which is fine, since reddit claims to be a social network, too.
My experience has been the opposite in the last few years. I've found myself filtering results google/duckduckgo specifically for reddit, because I was finding better answers to technical questions. Anecdotal, of course, and it does seem to be getting worse (less successful for me) over the last 6 months.
Same for me. A very specific non technical example was when I was searching about Natto , the Japanese fermented soybean food. About how to make and tips on how to better prepare it.
A search in Google yields pure SEO garbage. Adding site:reddit.com gave some good advice around natto and even pointed to some cool YT video (natto dad or similar).
The top of my mind was when I was having all sort of trouble with my Dell XPS and needed to find info on some bios operations, GPU testing, etc. Turned out it was a hardware failure that was tough to prove. Google yielded nothing, but there were a few threads on reddit that sent me in the right direction.
50/50 - I’ve been surprised about the number of Reddit threads that have been more useful than other results. Even if it’s been a discussion that doesn’t give me a solution but helps me shape what I’m trying the find.
Although it would be nice if unanswered posts didn’t rank so highly.
Sometimes I just want the opinion of an actual human being. It's hard to find that online anymore, without affiliate links and/or $COMPANY_NAME deleting negative remarks.
Reddit didn't reach this point because they're good, but because it's the least shitty option right now. (God I wish that wasn't the case.) I'm not saying there's no astroturfing going around there - - there absolutely is -- but it's still the only "mainstream" website where I'm confident I can find some dissenting opinions about a product that are written by actual human beings.
Yeah, I had exactly this problem with Google the other day, I googled something and saw the first result was a reddit post and the short summary under the link was like "Yes I've seen this problem BUT WHAT YOU REALLY SHOULD BE DOING" and I was optimistic that someone had some good guidance. Guess what I should be doing? Uninstalling windows and running Linux... That answer somehow had made it into the Google summary despite being downvoted on actual reddit.
You could always just try that out mate. You might actually like it. Just get a usb-c nvme drive housing and put a medium sized nvme drive innit, then install fedora with kde.
If you're not an online game player, it's actually a solid choice.
If you're... Well, then you won't be for much longer, as you'll be banned by Anti-Cheat within a few days
