Hi, I’m new here. Because of the bullshit with Reddit. Greetings fellow Lemmy people.
Welcome to our shithole.
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And me, hello!
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Uppies for all of you!
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Let’s two of them die together
I’ve posted this elsewhere, but it bears repeating:
Just use ddg bangs if you use Duckduckgo and you can search reddit directly.
!reddit search termor:
!r search termIt still picks up latest posts related to reddit, it just searches reddit directly instead of searching Bing’s results. It’s that simple.
You can even use a redirect extension like Libredirect in conjunction with this Duckduckgo feature to redirect your search to a privacy respecting frontend like redlib.
DDG is awesome, been using it for years.
Reddit responded: “Only google pays us”. The content is not yours. You built this of naive user base that just wanted to share now these fuckers are taking it as their entitlement. As early an reddit user - fuck that place, I’m still angry.
Legally speaking, the content is theirs.
No, I don’t think so. Just because you put a clause in ToS doesn’t make it legally binding and most precedent is in favor of the original copyright owner.
I’d love to see the precedent, if you don’t mind.
If someone posts a copyright violation on YouTube, YouTube can go free under the safe harbor provisions of the DMCA. (In the US.) YouTube just points a finger at the user and says “it’s their fault”, because the user owns (or claims to own) the content. YouTube is just hosting it.
I don’t know of any reason to think it’s not the same for written works. User posts them, Reddit hosts them, user still owns them. Like YouTube, the user gives the host a lot of license for that content, so that they can technically copy and transmit it. But ultimately the user owns it. I assume by the time Reddit made the AI deal they probably put in wording to include “selling a copy of the data” to active they want in the TOS.
Now, determining if the TOS holds up in court is of course trickier. And did they even make us click our permission away again after they added it, it just change something we already clicked? I don’t recall.
Usually any hosting platform has some kind of wording to the tune of “you give us permanent and unrestricted right to use your content however we want”. Copyright is still yours, but you can’t use it against the platform. Applies to social networks, YouTube, Flickr, anything I can think of.
Been on Reddit since like 2009-ish. You completely nailed the point.
IMO, another good reason to not use Google!
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I saw Reddit results in a search last night using DDG. It just said something like “It’s here on Reddit, but we’re not allowed to show you.” I wasn’t planning on using Reddit (never again), but that just irritated me.
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I work for a different sort of company that hosts some publicly available user generated content. And honestly the crawlers can be a serious engineering cost for us, and supporting them is simply not part of our product offering.
I can see how reddit users might have different expectations. But I just wanted to offer a perspective. (I’m not saying it’s the right or best path.)
Bing it is then. I hate Microsoft with the intensity of thousand suns but bing is now my jam as long as this lasts.
Try duckduckgo
DuckDuckGo also uses Bing under the hood.
Yes, duckduckgo uses other search engines to provide its results. Your point?
I don’t care where duckduckgo gets the links from, I care how relevant the top links are and that they aren’t being crowded out by ads.
Bing by any other name is still bing.
Edit: Awww some people either don’t know or don’t like that bing is what duckduckgo is. https://www.tomshardware.com/software/search-engines/microsoft-suffering-from-outage-bing-copilot-and-duckduckgo-inaccessible-for-several-hours
At best this is as intelligent as saying Google Maps is YouTube by another name because they’re both on Google servers. Even that would be smarter to say actually, because Google Maps and YouTube are owned by the same company.
When bing goes down so does duckduckgo but somehow your apples to oranges argument is somehow comparative to you.
They share hosting servers, that doesn’t make them the same service. When the power goes out do you think you and your neighbors live in the same house?
Just keep sucking down the hype. They don’t share the same hosting for the frontend but they both use the same backend. The backend is of course owned by microsoft. duckduckgo uses bings backend and somehow you have convinced yourself beyond all evidence to the contray that it isn’t bing with a different wrapper.
When you can’t pay Stardew Valley (because Steam is down) you also can’t play Eldenring. They must use the same backend and Eldenring is just Stardew Valley by another name.
You’re going to need a better source than “they go down at the same time”.
Still seems to work on Kagi
Oh well. Time to post more questions on lemmy
Reddit is asking for Europe to deem it a very large platform now that it’s gatekeeping like this
Just like Reddit’s changes last year, seems like a clear and reasonaly expected consequence of the ‘our text is so valuable because AI’ idea.
The web will probably continue to become more gated and more fragmented as a result of that, plus trying to get more control to force ads.
Ok so they are earning on our data
You just described every company
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/g-search-filter/
Install this and exclude it from all search results.
Couldn’t a search engine just aggregate the result from Google, filter the Reddit responses, and then add those results to their own organic results?
