This is getting ridiculous.
Also anyone else notice that google now censors most search results about drugs? They give you their fucking suicide hotline as the top result if you mention anything harder than weed. After that, it’s all DEA and DOJ webpages, literal DARE shit, actual rehab advertisements, and massively SEO’d rehab related grifts. Good luck getting any Bluelight or Erowid pages to come up without actively searching for them nowadays.
When most subreddits went offline last year, google became absolutely, profoundly useless. That really exposed this issue to a lot of people who actually hadn’t noticed before. If I’m a google exec right now, I’d be looking to prop up reddit by any means necessary because at this point if reddit were to ever digg itself permanently, it’d probably take google with it.
That’s a great point
The disappointing thing is that there are still some niche forums out there if you know what they’re called. But they rarely show up in Google searches
I search Lemmy these days instead of reddit. Example:
laptop "join lemmy" inurl:post