I've noticed my boomer parents using instagram and tiktok. I can't tell you how excited I am for them to kill those platforms like they did facebook. - eviltoast
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      8 months ago

      We used to do just that, google was where you went to find things. Reddit was where you went to tell other people what you found.

      Now you google things on Reddit to find the post where someone else put in the effort to find something. Googles base results are such SEO garbage that niche things might as well not be indexed or gasp on the second page. Reddit itself has also become unuseable with the redesigns, old.reddit/ooer was more readable than the current UI/UX.

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        8 months ago

        I want to use another engine so bad but Google has such little nice-to-have features that no other engine has.

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      8 months ago

      Boomers are also helping Reddit ban people that contribute all the time! Since Reddit’s appeal process is garbage and site wide bans are common, even more users are getting kicked off the platform. Just in time for that IPO.