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I’m not sure if there is a good solution. We’re just in the soup. Part of the mess that’s happening is because Reddit can be so good at giving proper answers. In my experience, at least in smaller communities, you have people that care and are curious.
So your question about a DAC is answered by someone who loves audio and bitrates and was into it for months or years before you even knew you’d have the question.
To fix trash search, AI is just chewing up all those old answers in the hope that it’ll be as “smart” about rowing as the woman on the subreddit who rowed for 10 years and coached for 5 and gave thoughtful answers to some college kid.
We’re in the middle of a… a something. And everything will just be shittier for a minute. The algorithms will feast on what’s buried in Reddit and become “smart” enough to give a passable answer, but then we run into the issue of new “smarts”… I don’t think AI will be able to generate new “smart” of any value. It’ll need to be trained by people and who knows if there will be dedicated people pouring info into a new repository.
I think you struck at the real answer to OP with this, personally. As search engines degrade in pursuit of profits, we're forced back to the basic model of information exchange, communicating with each other.
The real reason Reddit became such a resource of information was because it was such a central site of information exchange courtesy of its communities. What this means is that to get away from searching a single site and even relying on a single search engine, is that we rely on each other for information as we really always have.
I know that may sound kinda cheesy, but it's ultimately true. It's one of the reasons Discord servers are so popular, in some cases almost exceeding wikis.
Yeah, this. Google is a lot crappier than it used to be, but the reason it gives you Reddit search results it that everything is on Reddit. There's no forums anymore like the old days. Not many that are active anyway.