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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm far more concerned about the rise of Nazism and Monarchism in the USA. Even if we never have a Republican in any governing office again and the country continues to move further and further left, America has a lot of work to do to ensure these forms of tyrrany are never even considered as a viable alternative to Democracy.

The fact that these forms of governance survive in the hearts and minds of people is an indicator of a larger and more complex societal failing that spans the entire history of America. This is not some strange short term flash in the pan of Nazism and Authoritarianism, it is an insidious and vile tradition passed down from generation to generation, and we have only staunched it's slow cancerous growth by publicly shaming those who voice these views publicly. Obviously this has proven ineffective.

I think a more important question than whether one particularly sad excuse for a sad sack of shit may run for president again, is how do we make sure the Trump dynasty, and all dynasties, fade into obscurity until the last remnants of their legacy is a footnote that indicates we lived in a time period when humans, due to many generations of hoisting up those with the most lust for power into positions of power, nearly destroyed themselves. How do we make that happen?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I do wish they incorporated nitter as well, but otherwise it's got every privacy respecting frontend and has a lot of public instances in their default listings. One of the best extensions I've come across.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Honestly, reddit's search engine is okay, but yeah it doesn't get as exact as standard search engines because I think it prioritizes keywords from the post title over comments and also prioritizes most recent posts over subject relevance. That said, the old reddit posts are still going to be accessible via standard not google search engines.

I'll admit this is somewhat of a bandaid fix, as should reddit keep this deal with google going, eventually this workaround will prove less effective than it currently is.

This workaround just gets you the newest posts related to your query, and otherwise, for older posts, the search term reddit in search engines is still superior. So I don't know, it's the best solution I can think of for now.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 month ago (11 children)

I've posted this elsewhere, but it bears repeating:

Just use ddg bangs if you use Duckduckgo and you can search reddit directly.

!reddit search term

or:

!r search term

It still picks up latest posts related to reddit, it just searches reddit directly instead of searching Bing's results. It's that simple.

You can even use a redirect extension like Libredirect in conjunction with this Duckduckgo feature to redirect your search to a privacy respecting frontend like redlib.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It gets crazy when you use a redirection extension like libredirect. If you tell libredirect to redirect to a redlib instance, the !r or !reddit bang will try to send your query directly to reddit, and then instead you're presented with the search results on a no JavaScript frontend. This is what I do, a lot less clutter than reddit's site.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

Just use ddg bangs if you use Duckduckgo and you can search reddit directly.

!reddit search term

It still picks up latest posts related to reddit, it just searches reddit directly instead of searching Bing's results. It's that simple.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Even better. Thanks, been a while since I've looked up specific ddg bangs.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Just use ddg bangs if you use Duckduckgo and you can search reddit directly.

!reddit search term

It still picks up latest posts related to reddit, it just searches reddit directly instead of searching Bing's results. It's that simple.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Well that's annoying. One work around is to use a redirect extension like Libredirect and you can still search via the !reddit bang on DuckDuckGo. Thusly if I type into my search bar which has DuckDuckGo as default:

!reddit some new post or topic, it will search reddit for the search term, then when it attempts to load the reddit page, the libredirect extension will redirect and show the results.

Requires a bit of configuring and sure is annoying, but hey, no Google search necessary to get the up to date reddit threads.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Linode Cloud Services (now owned by Akamai). Heard about them on multiple Linux youtubers channels. Been hosting multiple apps and websites with them for a couple years now on their lowest plan and it works well. I'm sure people have their criticisms of them, but I've yet to have any issues.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Its not about letting anyone kill me. I'm just realistic. I run my mouth a lot when it comes to Nazis, and I'm not a fighter. It stands to reason one day my rhetoric will piss off the wrong person, and it stands to reason that'll be what kills me. Depending on how sadistic said person can get, there are worse ways to go.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Probably just continue to talk shit to Nazis until one of them kills me.

Y'know, a life well lived.

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