One of Our Best Websites Died While No One Was Looking
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The once-thriving site used to answer our most specific questions. But users are fleeing.

“Why Do So Many Music Venues Use Ticketmaster?” “What’s It Like to Train to Be a Sushi Chef?” “How Do Martial Artists Break Concrete Blocks?” If you were looking for answers to such questions 10 years ago, your best resource for finding a thorough, expert-informed response likely would have been one of the most interesting and longest-lasting corners of the internet: Quora.

  • RecallMadness@lemmy.nzEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I think Something will have to change quite significantly.

    Search engines give heavy weighting to uniqueness of content. And with Lemmy content being replicated across the fediverse that doesn’t exactly happen.

    And I’m not sure you can set a canonical URL that’s off site. And then, if it does and that site goes down, you “lose” the content.

    • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      It’s not just that it’s not unique, but any single instance is less heavily viewed, even if the overall response is