you don’t have to tell me information about why Rui’s drive is gone, I just googled it because I forgot their name (I thought it was Anadius’ drive at first)

    • db0MEnglish
      37•7 days ago

      Which is probably why the lemmy UI started getting randomly overwhelmed from AI scraping bots :S

      • @boredsquirrel@slrpnk.netEnglish
        8•7 days ago

        We should invent something that rotates community IDs but only non-bots see the real IDs, flood lemmy instanced with anti-AI posts and dont federate those posts.

        Like, lemmy.ml/c/linux is suddenly garbage, and actually another community.

        But I guess that would create massive drawbacks in UX, requiring javascript, logins or even captchas and breaking links

        • db0MEnglish
          22•7 days ago

          It’s almost impossible to determine bots nowadays. They’re better at solving captchas than humans.

          • @ex_06@slrpnk.netEnglish
            3•6 days ago

            If only we did not give up on social distributed verification instead of an automatic one e_e

          • @boredsquirrel@slrpnk.netEnglish
            1•7 days ago

            The world we created…

            Actually with electronic cryptographic IDs we could get rid of a shitload of issues. Everyone gets 2 passkeys and a strange method to reset stuff like with some other identification.

  • J'Pol English
    116•7 days ago

    It’s just cool to see Lemmy in any search result. It kind of reinforces that what we are doing here matters. Downside is that if an instance goes down, only a potential archive is there.

    • @14th_cylon@lemm.eeEnglish
      13•7 days ago

      be aware that google results are personalized for you, so that really doesn’t say much about what “average user” sees…

      screenshot is not from google, my bad.

      • OtterEnglish
        27•7 days ago

        Well this is duck duck go, I don’t think that is personalized?

          • Fonzie!English
            7•7 days ago

            DDG makes it quite the statement that they don’t personalise your search in any way, to the point where you can pick which country’s tailored results you want from a dropdown.

  • db0MEnglish
    31•7 days ago

    Google search is complete shite nowadays. We’re just lucky nobody is advertising for those keywords.

    • @incognito08@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      11•7 days ago

      The research is from Duck Go Go as most people have already said but I appreciate your comment offending Google. More people should do this nowadays!

      • db0MEnglish
        10•7 days ago

        eh, ddg is just bing. Only marginally better ideologically, and probably worse practically.

          • db0MEnglish
            1•2 hours ago

            Sadly, Ddg. What else can I use?

        • @gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          8•7 days ago

          fr!! im always confused when people advertise ddg as ‘the best privacy browser’ when it is well-known their results are bing’s, also the huge marketing campaign they did about how they’re ‘the most private and respect your privacy’ just weirded me out?? like it was a bit suspicious idk. oh yeah and that thing where the mobile ddg browser allowed microsoft trackers on microsoft ads because of their deal with bing (hey that rhymed!!)

          ++ half the time when i searched for anything moderately obscure there would be 0 results, or even if i didnt search for stuff like that i’d get results completely unrelated to my query.

          • db0MEnglish
            10•7 days ago

            None. There’s no good ones. There’s at best acceptable ones

          • WugmeisterEnglish
            3•7 days ago

            I’ve had an easy time finding pirated stuff using the Brave search engine. Main downside is that its run by Brave. Not the best of people imho.

  • moosetwinOPEnglish
    28•7 days ago

    I used tor to check if it was just on my end and it was the 6th result there