Like it or not, years of insight, experience and expertise live in Reddit threads. But accessing some of them just got harder.

  • DeathCubeK@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    I think they might mean folks who are using google to search reddit, for example, the search term “migrating to lemmy reddit”. I know I append “reddit” to a lot of my google searches and now with the blackout, those search results will only take you to a private page for the subreddit.

    • ShadyGrove@beehaw.org
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      2 years ago

      I was trying to lookup stuff about mechanical keyboards on ddg earlier today, and several results on the first page were reddit threads. So it can definitely happen with some other hobbies/topics I imagine.