punky-trans

burnt out punk

@punky-trans

terminally yearning

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hi, im esther or es, a 31yo switch vers poly t4t slut of a trans girl trying to survive late stage capitalism in tennessee. i like ttrpgs, storytelling, punk music and music of all kinds, and i hope for a better future through community and organized direct action.
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jessfromonline
@jessfromonline

I HATE THAT NOWHERE ON THE INTERNET HAS EXACT SEARCH ANYMORE

YOU CAN PUT ALL THE DOUBLE QUOTES YOU WANT AND IT STILL FUZZY MATCHES OR STRAIGHT UP DOES """SYNONYMS""". GOOGLE SUCKS NOW. EVERYTHING SUCKS ENSHITTIFICATION OF EVERYTHING.

Except Cohost. Thank god cohost has basic features like exact search, even if all you're searching is tags or people.

vampirebite
@vampirebite

i remember being able to at least wrangle google to give me usable results but like god it sucks so bad now it's such a pain in the ass.

like good luck searching for a specific tech issue that just so happens to have the same keywords as a completely different tech issue! and half the results would be useless for either issue anyways!!

punky-trans
@punky-trans

ive permanently moved to duck duck go on my phone and its heaven. it has rhat feature. you xan set it to be your default search in firefox. and if you have android like me i use nova launcher and you can make the search bar on your home page duck duck go too! i dont miss google ever. its like classic google.

google got greedy with their monopoly on search engines and made their search unusable to make money on selling out their seo and ad space. duck duck go is back to basics the way you miss. at least thats what it was for me.

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numberonebug
@numberonebug

The basic "here's how to use a database or search for information on the net" stuff I learned in elementary school is all useless nowadays and I feel as lost sometimes as if the internet just went offline

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kstarling
@kstarling

It's distressing. Something powerful and once ubiquitous has been thoroughly subverted. People not much younger than me (and I am not that old) don't even know it existed, and because the same names of websites and same apparent services still "exist", it's difficult to communicate what, precisely, has been lost.

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kstarling
@kstarling

Duckduckgo and startpage, the two most popular alternatives, still rely upon Google, Bing, and Yandex search to produce their own aggregate results. They are not complete search engines in their own right, it's more accurate to think of them as a layer of obfuscation to de-identify the user.

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doodlemancy
@doodlemancy

using any search tool now feels like one of those frustrating dreams where like, you just can't do something really easy, like put both legs in your pants or turn a doorknob. i used to be the queen of search terms! people would be like "how did you find that so fast" and i'd be like "key words babey"

and now it's all meaningless because everything is trying to guess what i want instead of using my keyword, and by guess what i want, i mean it's trying to guess how it can get me to make some sort of purchase. horrific. i want my internet back. :(

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HorsePondMine
@HorsePondMine

Today I was looking for pancake places on Yelp for work and the top results were a bakery that hand a donut someone said tasted like a pancake and an Indian restaurant because Yelp thought the word "butter" in "butter chicken" was close enough to pancake.

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