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[–] CaptainAlcohol@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It became useless partly due to the overmarketing and the reliance on ads, of annoyingly useless websites using SEO to stay ahead of legitimate resources (happened so many times now it's terrible), but also for the aformentioned reason: everyone published on their social media (walled gardens) so they don't appear on search engines. Particularly evident with dicord and facebook groups taking over forum. Well, they won't ever appear on a search engine. Reddit is an exception, but nowdays it's completely app-centric, the web ui is terrible (the app is even worse if you dare using it).