This just started yesterday or the day before. I use Firefox with Duckduckgo as a search engine. I wanted to look something up so I put the classical “reddit” at the end of my question. I couldnt find reddit at all. I was confused at first.

After searching it up I found out that reddit would only be indexed if you are using the google search engine. No more. I used to love reddit but now I’m tired of the website.

Lemmy for life!

      • pewter
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        This is bizarre.

        I’m using the DDG search engine in the DDG browser and I’m getting reddit results with your search. The only difference was I didn’t choose Canada as my region. I tried Canada(en), I tried all safe search options, and I tried Canada (fr) and each time I got Reddit as my first search results.

        • @abolishredditnawOP
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          I tried “All regions” but didnt get anything as well. I’ll be trying the DDG browser, thank you for your input

          Edit: tried it, didnt work. Reddit is no more for me I feel like

          Screenshot_20241224_192903_DuckDuckGo

  • @[email protected]
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    I find absolutely no value in that place now. It’s morphed into nothing but a time sink and there are plenty other options for that.

    • @abolishredditnawOP
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      The site doesnt feel like its filled with real people anymore, maybe there are more and more bots being used?

    • @abolishredditnawOP
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      Definitely, but I’m a firm believer in being the change you want to see. I’ll be contributing to this site rather than reddit from now on

      • @[email protected]
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        21 day ago

        Lemmy being decentralized doesn’t make it very search engine friendly. Because it’s federated across multiple instances, none of them reach a critical mass big enough / trusted to be constantly at the top of results. Duplicated content across instances can be flagged as spammy content.

          • @[email protected]
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            26 hours ago

            I recently had a very specific issue with KDE and the first and actually helpful result was a thread from a Lemmy instance. Never had this happen before, but it’s a good sign.

      • Alice
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        11 day ago

        Ok then post from all my communities then lol

  • WatDabney
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    71 day ago

    I’ve been looking forward to this actually.

    As far as I’m concerned, automatically avoiding Reddit just by avoiding Google (which I already do) is a welcome bonus.

    • @abolishredditnawOP
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      11 day ago

      I guess I’ll use my phone even less now. Sometimes inconvenient but beneficial in the long run

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed
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    21 day ago

    Lemmy is good for general discussion. Current events, politics, rant about life, whatever.

    Not gonna be useful for discussing thing like:

    “Which is your favorite character of [Insert obscure TV show that 90% of people didn’t watch]”

    meanwhile, theres almost guaranteed to be a subreddit for that show.

  • bluGill
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    11 day ago

    I’m surprised the other search engines have got a antimonopoly ruling already

  • @[email protected]
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    11 day ago

    I thought I was tripping earlier but I just tested it and you’re right. even using Boolean search I can only pull up user profiles, not posts.

  • Alice
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    Isn’t there an option in reddit settings to turn off and on showing up in Google results?

    • @abolishredditnawOP
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      I think that feature is refering to other people searching up your username

      Edit: btw I dont use google (whether the browser or the search engine) which is why I was annoyed at this change. Only the google search engine can give you reddit results