The biggest impediment to using lemmy as a less shitty SO/Reddit is that there simply isn’t the volume of answers here. Eventually there may be - and I’d argue that the quality of answer is generally better here - but currently there are a lot of questions that simply haven’t been asked.
The meme about googling site:Reddit comes out of how deeply shitty Google has let their search engine become. In an ideal world you’d just search on Google and get decent quality responses instead of needing to domain bind your results.
Maybe it’d be helpful to try a quality search engine like Kagi?
The meme about googling site:Reddit comes out of how deeply shitty Google has let their search engine become.
It was two-part, the other side was that reddit’s own search was so crap people use google search instead.
I mean, “[problem] + Lemmy” works
Actually put Lemmy in quotes and it’ll return better results
Kagi has a “lense” for Fediverse forums, which is a pretty great solution. Maybe adding Lemmy will work if it finds everything mirrored on lemmy.world, I’m not sure. Kagi finds everything on the original instance.
I really like Kagi, I’ve exhausted my free searches.
Sincerely hope they find another model so that they can offer a cheaper plan, the payment system is one thing hindering them IIRC.
Oh, well I just need to get rich I guess.
I agree. I’m happy to pay, but not for AI search functionality, and not as much as they’re asking.
$10/mo is nothing. Whatever search you use today, you are paying in other ways.
Ironically I’m using a free trial of Kagi.
Paid for the limited plan before, but had not nearly enough searches and got annoyed by the unrolling integration of AI. Happy to be back now, but still not sure about it.
$10 per month is not nothing at all, and if I’m not somewhat confident I am ideologically aligned with Kagi I’ll be reluctant to spend so much money on it. I’d rather sponsor open source projects and other things I believe in.
