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You aren't using the internet, you are using Reddit as a walled garden. This is risky if you believe a decentralized internet is valuable

• ivanjermakov 2y ago
  Not quite. I still treat Reddit as an aggregator of small niche communities e.g. games or not-so-popular hobbies. And this is a relatively small part of my internet usage.
  • jshen 2y ago
    Right, but you basically said that you don't need search because you only use a few sites. That, or you do use search in the form of Reddit indexing the web which is your major search engine. There is value in anyone being able to publish their content without a gate keeper. All content shouldn't be locked within a few walled gardens.
• account42 2y ago
  Exactly. I have used the site:reddit.com filter too but it's at best a hack that will only work until SEO scammers game reddit instead - and that's probably already well under way. What is really needed is a search that lets me filter to results where the author doesn't profit from me seeing the result. Filtering for websites without advertising might be good enough. Not something Google will ever provide due to conflicting interests.
  • jshen 2y ago
    I've been thinking about this too and may try to build it once I retire. One challenge is defining "doesn't profit from me" which I've genericized as "high quality". Many things that are high quality profit from you, but they profit by providing real value to you. How you turn that into a set of rules or a model is tricky.