And saw a bunch of posts about the third party apps closing down, and lots of negativity about that whole fiasco.

… And I realized I hadn’t been there for a week… And frankly didn’t miss it. I am really loving the beehaw (and Lemmy as a whole) community. Thanks for being open, welcoming, responsive, engaging, and just generally nice people. I’m happy to be here. :)

  • Echolot@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Same here, Google has slowly become unusable for certain topics if you don’t append “reddit” to your search.

    • nevird@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I started using DuckDuckGo actively in 2014. It has since been my primary search engine. It used to be very similar to google: minimalist, an ad placed as the first search result and that’s it. DDG has stayed pretty much the same. The few times I now wander on google to try to get different results, I just find it so unusable. Search results are swimming in an ocean of suggested content… I’m never going back.

      • Pigeon@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        2 years ago

        I do the same. It feels exactly the same, if not slightly better than, google search, now that search is so drowned in SEO spam anyways.