I always first search for a thing, look through the first ~10 results, don't find what I'm looking for, then go back to the search bar and append "reddit" and usually find the info I need right away almost every time. Going to be hard to break that habit and come up with better ways to pinpoint what I need. Or maybe I'll move all my questions to chatgpt and do what it tells me to do 🤡
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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I unfortunately had to use reddit to resolve an issue with angular 😭😭😭
Yeah, I'm definitely going to keep going back to Reddit for tech issues. There's over a decade of information there and it'll take a long time before any alternatives can compare.
I'm not sure why you think you need to avoid Reddit at cost to you finding the information you're after.
If the information you want is on Reddit, why wouldn't you want to read it?
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I put reddit on my dns blocking list for now. Prevents accidental access. Replaced the buttons on my browser and phone with lemmy, since it's the thing i probably zombie-touch by habit.
What I find frustrating is that on iOS, the system put my Ice (Mastodon) icon into a Social folder but my Narwhal app was placed in Information and Reading! So my muscle memory has me tapping an icon in a different folder and I can't move Ice to where I want it. I'm trying to train myself to use the PWA links on my Home Screen for sh.itjust.works and kbin.social but it's a struggle.
Edit: just to be clear, I've never understood why Narwhal was put in the Information folder instead of Social.
Yep. Same here. I needed an answer about makemkv audio files. I instinctively clicked 3 different reddit links. Finally got my answer on some other random forum, but I feel like reddit would have been better 🙁
There is a lot of helpful information there. I hope that some of that can stay as search indexing on archive sites is difficult.
All that said, I just deleted my accounts I had with them. If I use it, it will be without being logged in and only the odd search for something I need.
And hopefully, improvements to platforms like Lemmy grow to where I can search for what I need there or find the best community to ask a question in a few seconds rather than 5-10 minutes. No hate, just where the platform is at right now with the influx.
Bro same here hahaha i've had to catch myself trying to google (aka use reddit) stuff I want to find information about, like 3 times already
I would rather just not look up information and figure it out myself, than use real google search to find information. Fuck their infested clickbait articles and useless shitty microsoft support posts lol. Reddit has spoiled me so much
I gave up and just removed reddit Boost from my phone's home screen. Work productivity is going up hahaha