Like, for example I have a specific issue with a digital audio converter by a popular brand but their customer service is awful. A simple google prompt followed by site:reddit.com would yield solutions almost every time. In fact I would say I did 90% of my googling that way. How do I break this cycle and do you feel this is one of the biggest challenges we’re facing? If anything, Reddit remains the biggest repo of easily accessible solutions for anything. We’re seeing right now what happens if this is being taken away by subs going private. Vanilla Google is a shitshow.
Absolutely how I feel. I will not generate one more byte of content for them but if I can’t find what i’m looking for elsewhere I will use them as a read-only resource. If I have a question I need to ask I’m hoping Lemmy will be the place I can do that