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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Exactly instead of a bunch of publicly searchable information silos we have a whole bunch of fragmented private ones with absolutely no overlap and far less useful. We need a publicly funded site of some kind.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They're not private. Advertisers have full access and that's what actually matters.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I meant from people like you and me that are Googling an obscure topic or researching something or troubleshooting information, those things are disappearing behind the walls of Discord