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> Why would somebody want to use it as a primary source of truth? Not everything is about truth or untruth. Some things are opinions, and some opinions are wor
by xboxnolifes 5y ago
> Why would somebody want to use it as a primary source of truth?
Not everything is about truth or untruth. Some things are opinions, and some opinions are worse than others. Some are just spam.
Search engines have been absolutely destroyed by blog spam. Look up info on new hardware? Dozens of amazon referral blog spam. Look up information about hobbies? Dozens of blog spam trying to either sell you something or get ad revenue. Look up an obscure thought about something civil in nature? A mix between thousand page government docs that I don't know how to navigate, a few dozen irrelevant "news" articles, and more blog spam.
At least with reddit I can usually find something that is not blog spam, and I'm generally familiar with the biases of various subs. It's far from perfect, but I don't know anything better in the general case.