“Why Do So Many Music Venues Use Ticketmaster?” “What’s It Like to Train to Be a Sushi Chef?” “How Do Martial Artists Break Concrete Blocks?” If you were looking for answers to such questions 10 years ago, your best resource for finding a thorough, expert-informed response likely would have been one of the most interesting and longest-lasting corners of the internet: Quora.

  • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz
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    9 months ago

    If you were looking for answers to such questions 10 years ago, your best resource for finding a thorough, expert-informed response likely would have been one of the most interesting and longest-lasting corners of the internet: Quora.

    I disagree, the best place for such answers used to be Reddit, and Stack Exchange for the techy stuff. Quora always felt like cancer for some reason and I never really used it.

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      9 months ago

      I think that’s because Quora paywalls responses from volunteers, preventing others from seeing them unless they pay a subscription. Pretty scummy.

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      9 months ago

      Here’s hoping at some point search engines will return Lemmy links when people look for answers, but we’re not there yet

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        9 months ago

        Kagi now has a lens for focusing results from the Fediverse, I’ve seen it pull Lemmy links before!

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        9 months ago

        search engines are thoroughly crap right now. Abandon all hope that they will become better.