There’s a host of factors that lead into the degredation of (at least google) search over the last decade or so. Many have already been brought up, but one that hasn’t is the result of the SEO arms race. When google first got popular, people realized they could game the algorithm by embedding keywords in their page to make the page appear in more searches. Google found a way to correct that, but it’s been whack-a-mole with the so-called “Search Engine Optimization” industry ever since. These days, google says ‘eh, fuck it’ and basically runs a pay-to-play service to rank up people who are willing to pay to have their page listed higher. Most people don’t even click past the first page, so not getting on the first page is effectively a death sentence for that page/site. It’s a real incestuous/autocannibalizing cesspool anymore. Google search is now quite literally an ad listing rather than a search index.

What a shame, bless his kind dear little heart.

On second thought, let’s not go to the internet. 'tis a silly place.

honestly this and the other comment have me second guessing. i was being awful windows centric.

oh. thats wacky. it shows up for me on the live post but not the edit?

i legit developed severe photsensitivity driving uber eats a few years ago at night in my miata. I couldn’t walk around indoors without sunglasses for almost a year after i quit.

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no it seems to have formatted actually. you caught me before i could ninja edit

im here on my phone this time and – i’ll be fucked i didnt know that. are you sure its not lemmy autoformatting?

more like it requires the use of an alt code, and humans aint got time for that shit in casual ‘speechtype.’ there’s literally nothing you can say with an emdash that a well-placed semicolon (and/or a few other tools) couldn’t solve with a slightly reconstructed sentence structure. if you’re using them, especially repeatedly within a couple paragraphs, you’re either: unusually resistant to the tedium and friction of breaking your stride to type alt 0151; writing formally; a bot. i’ll give you three guesses which is most likely.

personally I’ve stopped using proper grammar and spelling and formal language and capitalization and whatnot as a sortof ‘proof of humanity.’ people who use em-dash in anything but formal writing are just self-flagging themselves as bots at this point. even in formal writing you better have yourself a robust edit log.

agreed

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that’s a bold assertion. prove it.

given the state of the us, a valid strategy has less to do what is fitting and more to do with what you can get away with.

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until you can conquer the fear of death and the unknown, religion will persist.

Concern? You obviously haven’t considered all the money they’re making!

well, if your eggs are aweet and your oatmeal is salty, …

?huh? there’s no x in foh pa. “fox paws” pls be serious sir

negative feedback reinforcement systems are one of the key features of machine learning algorithms.

they are far, far more than math machines.

can you be more specific?