What if it's not google results that suck, what if it's the internet? Reddit is (in theory) what we wish the internet still was: a bunch of loose communities with people sharing and discussing content, both original and not. The internet at large has become primarily different forms of ads. There was a time when the internet was littered with ads in popups, then they became banners on the side, now they are the content itself.
It's feels silly to wish there could be an open version of reddit because that's what the internet is. It's just that there's so much noise now that it's impossible to find the signal. At one time google was that filter to find the diamonds in the rough. But now they have no incentive to filter that stuff out, because 9/10 times, the rough is THEIR ads. We need a new filter that's not funded by advertising.
It's feels silly to wish there could be an open version of reddit because that's what the internet is. It's just that there's so much noise now that it's impossible to find the signal. At one time google was that filter to find the diamonds in the rough. But now they have no incentive to filter that stuff out, because 9/10 times, the rough is THEIR ads. We need a new filter that's not funded by advertising.