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I went searching for something today and instinctually clicked on a reddit link. Fortunately the sub was dark for the protest anyway, but it's crazy how ingrained in me it is to go to reddit for everything.

Unfortunately now we're going to have to get used to clicking on those clickbait tech articles like "TOP 10 FACEBOOK ALTERNATIVES 2023" to find information, and weed out the crappy blogs.

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[–] juniper_ghost@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have seen a lot of highly upvoted comments on reddit which were very, very wrong.

I still use reddit for help on things. But for topics that I'm less knowledgeable about (so I can't gauge the accuracy myself), I try to just take everything with a grain of salt.

[–] Gork@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

It helps that if something is wrong on Reddit, another redditor usually points it out since there are many eyes on any particular thread.

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, I always enjoyed getting down voted for the correct answer.

[–] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

True, but the chance of it being wrong is substantially smaller than the chance of chatGTP dreaming up something.