[skort]

This whole thing feels like a neat encapsulated example of how horrible the "Internet" has become. A bad actor with vested interest taking over a part of a website (Reddit) that is then used as a source of record (Google, LLMs), and bam, completely fabricated overviews of a brand/company are now all you see when you use the predominant search engine, because there are no alternatives.

All of this for what? Shareholder value? So Silicon Valley elites can get rich and force their shit ideas on everyone?

If you don't see this for what it is, and that is just pure rot of the major services that people use and rely on for their information needs, then you might be beyond helping. Everyone should be pissed that this is what the internet has become.

[collingreen]

Most people have only interacted with a late stage of the internet already sewed up into walled gardens.

I don't know if it will work but it would be nice to show folks what the alternatives might be, examples of your ideal internet, instead of insult a generation of folks who don't know what a forum or a bulletin board or a blogroll is.

The stuff you miss is still out there. You can do good by sharing it with those who don't know what they are missing.

[angrydev]

What is the suggestion for filtering out the grifters from these places on the internet that have become super valuable?