How do people find good information on the internet these days? - eviltoast

It used to be that you would do a search on a relevant subject and get blog posts, forums posts, and maybe a couple of relevant companies offering the product or service. (And if you wanted more information on said company you could give them a call and actually talk to a real person about said service) You could even trust amazon and yelp reviews. Now searches have been completely taken over by Forbes top 10 lists, random affiliate link click through aggregators that copy and paste each others work, review factories that will kill your competitors and boost your product stars, ect… It seems like the internet has gotten soooo much harder to use, just because you have to wade through all the bullshit. It’s no wonder people switch to reddit and lemmy style sites, in a way it mirrors a little what kind of information you used to be able to garner from the internet in it’s early days. What do people do these days to find genuine information about products or services?

  • kratoz29@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I have found some pretty neat information here on Lemmy, specifically talking about Android, Firefox and Linux.

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      1 year ago

      We have stuff that is not Linux, too.

      I don’t know where we keep any of that, but I’m like 80% sure we have it somewhere.

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        1 year ago

        Haha I felt this comment.

        I seen someone suggest Lemmy’s porn is better then Voldemort’s website now. I was like, lemmy has porn?

        I think once topics have labeles with multiple similar instances or something to that effect it’ll get much more organized and hopefully factual as a result. The propaganda is thick on lemmy.

        Edit: spelling

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          1 year ago

          Dude, you had me seriously wondering what kind of Voldemort porn exists out there… I understood the reference… Too late.