Google is pretty trash now and has been for a while to be honest. The removal of features such as using quotation marks for an exact search was part of the downfall. Now Google will basically only show you what it thinks you want and you have minimal (if any) ways around it.
That’s not to say I don’t also agree with you about DDG. The results are leveraged from Bing, which are pretty lacking for some standard searches. You have to search a little differently than you would with Google for better results and filter through more junk websites.
If I had to grade the quality of both, Google would probably be a C+ and DDG a C.
That being said I always use DDG first since I don’t think it’s far off from Google’s quality, it is privacy preserving and still has some features that were nixed from Google. It also has the option to use ‘!g’ in a search to immediately search for the same terms but on Google which helps when their results aren’t working for me.
Ultimately, to each their own but I thought I’d throw in my experiences.
I’ve always thought that Google knows what I want because Google knows how I’d ask for what I want. It wasn’t the first but for sure the longest time I have used a search engine. It’s hard to break free from habits.
For many years I’ve been trying to default DDG just to use the !g all the time and eventually get fed up and switch back. But besides YT Family the search is the only thing left.
This year I haven’t changed it back (yet) although occasionally I do use it, mostly for local searches. Even with adblockers and all, G is prioritizing sites I have already been on, and often I need some new perspectives in my searches. DDG feels like I have to keep my mind sharp, sometimes that means rewording what I want.
I’ve started using Kagi, has better results, supports bangs, can rank websites in results (for example I used to have Reddit links ranked higher 😞) and many cool futures. Only downsides for me is that it costs, they offer free, 200 or 500 searches maybe? Then it’s $5/month for a limited number of searches and a $10/month plan as well.
Offensive language won’t be tolerated here? According to who? You clearly don’t understand federation if you can’t grasp that you can be part of two different instances that aren’t federated. What you’re doing is trying to impose your will on other people who want nothing to do with it. Calling that fucking stupid is the most polite way I can frame that attitude.
Uh, wouldnt this make more sense for mastodon instances to defed? Can we even see mastodon posts on lemmy? I know they can post here, but its always like a lost in translation weird post.
I think it’s got less to do with whatever is posted online and it’s more about the under the hood stuff like what devices you decide to use, what networks are being used to access their services, what contacts they have, and other shit like that.
People left reddit because reddit started charging for data access, and not the same people say they don’t want others to have access to their public data.
I thought it’s cause they didn’t want it to be flooded/overrun by the massive amount of posts from threads. let’s face it, threads is going to have a waaaaay bigger userbase. I mean shit, it already does if Instagram accounts automatically have a threads account.
Meta’s Twitter clone. The smart thing they did was convert over Instagram accounts, so there’s a ton of semi-famous people on already. It’s got a ton of attention in the past two days, just for being Twitter sans Elon.
Facebook equivalent of Twitter (an underwhelmingly simplified description). I am not a fan of Meta but I’m a fan of competition in any market so even though I have no plans to use Threads I’m glad it exists as yet another option to prevent one single platform from being “the” platform.
Its Meta’s (Facebook) attempt at Twitter. Given how much Twitter is shitting the bed as well as Metas ability to push a new platform via their other channels, it has exploded overnight gaining millions of users almost instantly.
Well that makes sense. It’s easy to gain millions of followers when you own Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. You just advertise to those users. Same reason that Google+ got 200 million users at it’s height. The trick is keeping them engaged and being better than the alternatives.
Generally disagree. If you want the Fediverse to become a large open standard, if not the largest, then this is going to just be a matter of course. Companies will seek to commodify all their offerings, whether they use open standards or not. Many exist that commodify on top of open-source software and open standards. The important part is to ACHEIVE the open standard to begin with, and I think it’s short-sighted to pre-emptively block something that could be a strong item down that path, and before it might show itself to be more harmful towards that goal.
It can always be blocked later, situation-depending.
But here’s the thing: do you really want the Facebook crowd in the Fediverse? You’ve probably been to any facebook comment section of any facebook publication, and it’s cancer. One thing I liked about reddit before its fuckups, is that it was not facebook (or twitter for that matter).
So, screw facebook. I’m quite okay with instances blocking that noise.
Hey man, that’s not cool. Once I finish this round of Fortnite, take a 2 hour lunch, and go afk at 4 I’ll reply to this in 2 or 3 days asking you for an update
Because I primarily use a laptop, Linux desktop is a no no for me. I spent years trying to get my trackpad to behave as beautifully as it does with MacOS and could never get it.
That alone is enough to drive me off Linux Desktop … For now.
I gave up after my third gig where I could use Linux to work… but had to be my own it support, and make all the corporate tooling work on top of it. This job am now using the provided macbook… I do hate the weird non-Linux gawk, sed, curl, etc, and brew is very underwhelming, but I stopped having to spend days making random corporate spyware work because compliance, and then have to recover lost time in actual work.
Sure, in the same way Android is a subset of Linux. Their appeal and use-cases are completely different, and in no way are GNU/Linux and ChromeOS practically interchangeable.
Schools are a HUGE user of Chromebooks. Most highschools in the US lend each of their students a Chromebook to use, and that alone accounts for a huge userbase.
They quietly jot down everyone’s updates, circle the words they don’t understand, attempt to look up what those words mean, then say them in the next stand up completely out of context and incorrectly.
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