• MJBrune@beehaw.org
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    I’ve actively found this as well but honestly, I think it’s for the best because most of the time Reddit posts with actual answers aren’t well-cited. So if anyone asks how you know something, “uhh Reddit told me” is pretty weak. So Google is getting better because Reddit has gotten worse. It means that you have to go to the actual articles and find the actual sources instead of this daisy chain of information. We have a huge issue with misinformation and this actually helps resolve it.

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      Wait you use reddit posts to inform yourself on things where misinformation is possible? I also was mildy inconvenienced by the blackouts but it was mostly related to programming stuff, where it is very obvious if an answer is wrong. I don’t think I would even consider using reddit as a source for anything factual

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        I work as a game developer and a programmer. There are a lot of possibilities for people to be wrong. Especially when it comes to design or usage. A lot of misinformation in programming is like “Yeah this answer is technically correct” with this specific case but when you scale it, it breaks entirely. Like https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/stealth-based-mechanics/6992/6 is a great example where yeah a trace will work, your data will be inaccurate a bit, you won’t be able to scale it and it won’t work with a lot of edge case lighting. The better solution is to use a grey-colored mesh and a scene capture to get information consistently about both the baked and dynamic lighting. You might even have a better way, like getting the data from lumen or shadow maps.

        So even with things you think won’t have misinformation, you get misinformation, and people are guessing while presenting they are right.

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      All the stuff i would use reddit as an actual source for is things where it’s either obvious that the person is wrong or easy to check or think through. Same for lemmy

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        Yeah I mostly use it for like product reviews/recommendations or like personal help topics. Not stuff where factual information is required

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      We have a huge issue with misinformation and this actually helps resolve it.

      I’m not really sure about that. Bad SEO is something that still exists, and with huge sites like Reddit gone, the bad SEO sites become more prominent which is not necessarily the site with actual articles and sources.

      Of course the solution to this is not reddit back but stopping SEO and having better curation of sites in search engines somehow.