Look at this shit (first paragraph of body of article):
“Automatic watches are admired for their intricate mechanics and timeless appeal, but even the finest timepieces can sometimes run fast or slow. If you’ve noticed your automatic watch gaining or losing time, you’re not.”
First search result on DDG. Thank you, automatic watch expert and real person Hnin Oo Thazin. We may need a whole ass new internet.
https://mtscwatch.com/blog/why-your-automatic-watch-runs-fast-or-slow-and-how-to-fix-it
I don’t think we can overestimate the impact this “knowledge collapse” will have yet. Thank goodness for the fediverse, not that it is immune but holy shit the rest of the internet and ALL of corporate social media sure has gone to the dumps fast hasn’t it…
The general reduction in quality of search engine results in the last 2-3 years alone is sobering.
I think it is tantamount to a mass delusion that people refuse to think about the fact that social media will tear society apart unless it is structured in at the very least a semi-decentralized federated fashion not under the control of one or two massive corporations. It feels like for my whole life I have had conversations like this with people and most often people just don’t care, they would rather be under a more convenient and more centralized authority. Regardless it is no less surreal to me than it must be to those people in denial about this that we are seeing the unavoidable consequences of refusing to understand a crisis of centralization rip our societies apart into violence and bigotry.
This is why I hasted my self hosted adventure. I have to selfhost before everything go to crap
And the craziest thing, is that I got ads in my servers logs. Some company think it is a good thing to advertise in http headers and cookies while scanning all ports
and “sobering” is literally the last fucking thing I need to be happening to me in 2025
Is the fediverse good? Can you find information that was posted here by searching in DDG/Google/…?
I think that what is lost about reddit from reddit specifically being such a shitty company that has so desperately enshittified itself to the point of comic absurdity in what feels like a blink of an eye is that… reddit is the start of a great concept. Of course any system can be gamed, we all could just be dogs on the internet pretending to be humans, but most of the time the upvoting and downvoting along with the multilayered threaded conversations allows for conversation, links and facts to surface that I find harder to find in other places and in general surprisingly sophisticated compared to other places on the internet, so yes!
Of course there is only so much here, which is where you come in!
Honestly, the fact it doesn’t show up on search engines much likely contributes to it staying healthy. If it becomes valuable to post here for SEO then we’ll see an increase in bots using it for promotion or whatever else.
If the content and information posted here can not be found, then it is essentially useless except for that moment in time for those few that happen to read it here.
Why would you rate service quality by SEO performance? There’s almost nothing you can do to make high quality information avilable to search engines while being drowned out by an infinite flood of garbage.
Information needs to be able to be found…?
Yes, actually. I know Kagi in particular has a fediverse “lens” that filters results to things found here. Unsure if anyone else has implemented that yet, or how deeply it scrapes fedi for results, but it’s there.
Regardless everything that is posted here is publicly visible so any search engine that wanted to could scrape results from here.