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“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.
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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.
I disagree, the best place for such answers used to be Reddit, and Stack Exchange for the techy stuff. Quora always felt like cancer for some reason and I never really used it.
I think that’s because Quora paywalls responses from volunteers, preventing others from seeing them unless they pay a subscription. Pretty scummy.
I wouldn’t call it scummy, just bad business, give people one premium answer per week, so they know the quallity and at incentivised to pay.
Do they pay the people who answer the questions? I genuinely don’t know. But if they don’t then, yes, it is scummy to just profit off of someone else’s work and not pay them.
I’ve contributed to sites like Wikipedia.
Not everything needs to be measured in money though. There’s inherent satisfaction in the work with things like this. And at the end of the day, we all benefit from having platforms with accurate, well thought out answers. Today you’re answering, tomorrow you’re the one with the question.
But Wikipedia aren’t charging people to see the work you contributed for free. That’s a significant difference.
Wikipedia is run by a nonprofit. They don’t monetise volunteer contributions and they don’t paywall the knowledge on their site, they run on donations. It’s not really a comparable situation.
I’d say there was a period before reddit hit its pinnacle where Quora was significantly better. Probably more than 10 years ago, though, and only for a few years. I remember when I started spending more time on Reddit than Quora.
Here’s hoping at some point search engines will return Lemmy links when people look for answers, but we’re not there yet
Kagi now has a lens for focusing results from the Fediverse, I’ve seen it pull Lemmy links before!
search engines are thoroughly crap right now. Abandon all hope that they will become better.
You say that like it’s true for all search engines. Which isn’t the case and is incredibly dumb to think.
Lemme guess, you’re a kagi cultist.
The problem with Lemmy is the federated content gets duplicated on multiple sites, word for word, which isn’t good for SEO
That is a search engine problem, not a lemmy problem.
A horrible user experience with an insufferable userbase. I can’t believe it even lasted this long.
Who thought it would be great if similar questions overpowered the one you searched for?
Stack Exchange
Another social media site which followed the enshittification paradigm. This playbook has played out so many times until now. Start it with “good intentions” as a for-profit startup. People join and volunteer their time because the founders say all the right things and the site culture is so new and exciting. Once the site gets popular though, all the fancy talk from the founders goes out the window.
When will people learn this lesson? Don’t ever volunteer your time on a for-profit proprietary social network. You will get rugpulled! We are all the value in all these sites. Why do we let them control our interactions, ffs?!
PS: Would be interesting to get a fediverse version of Quora. Or Maybe we can make something using Lemmy communities instead.
Volunteer your time, but do it with your eyes open.
If you’re okay with how it’s going to end up, it’s all good.
You mean like c/asklemmy?
I think Reddit almost had it for awhile. There was a point when stuff like r/askhistorians and the like actually worked, and you’d get fairly good answers. That’s one place where the Fediverse isn’t up to speed yet, for that sort of thing you need a critical mass of “everybody uses it” to really achieve.
So far Lemmy is at its best in the hobby subs because three people with the same hobby will still have fun talking, but if I say “nutritional anthropologists of Lemmy: when and where did humans begin eating cheese?” it’s gonna be crickets because there’s probably not a nutritional anthropologist to be found among us.
It was always a garbage site, and it hid behind a requirement to login just to view more than like 1 question, amd it was full of creepy discussions.
I don’t ever remember people taking Quora very seriously. It was always full of insufferable questions and replies.
For me I hated Quora because of how locked down it is. Want to view another question on the site? Must register an account first! No fucking thanks. It was always nagging about creating an account.
Because of this I actively ignored Quora results anytime I googled something.
Yep, I can’t speak on the decline of quality because it was a site that was early to dark pattern bullshit. It would show up prominently in Google search and then tease “you have to sign up to read the answers”. Uh, no. Reminds me of expert sexchange or whatever that site was that got smashed by stackoverflow for similar reasons.
Oh damn, experts exchange. Takes me back!
I finally cracked and made an account
It’s not worth it, you basically get alerts on the account for everything to the point of uselessness
That’s what I have been told and that’s why I have been avoiding creating an account
I found a work around for this even though i don’t use quora anymore here it goes :
- click the question you want to see from the web page . then when the question thread link you want to see appears on your search bar click your search bar and load it manually . Also you have to be in incognito mode for this to work .
Heh, I requested my Quora account to be deleted just 16 days ago. It was finally deleted.
I left because it got filled with far right-wings, conservatives and pedophiles. Also many answers are now paywalled.
why not troll the heck outta them
I think the greatest thing that Quora provided was the “Pregananant???” video. Or was that Yahoo?
Yahoo answers
Edit: pregánte
This is the classic mission mismatch. The people are there for a community. The company is there for a profit.
The wikimedia foundation is a foundation whose mission is in line with the people who add to Wikipedia. So there isn’t a conflict
Anyone else getting a massive wave of spam from quora lately? They have completey gone to shiite
Either they’ve forgot about me or I blocked them and forgot about it
Yeah nah. I didn’t need to know how babby was formed
Good riddance honestly, never have I gotten a good answer from Quora, seems like they’re all trolls. So for the past decade+ I overlook ANY Quora links related to my search
Poster: <Asks some random tech question> 100 Quora replies: Hi, I’m <generic name>, creator and founder of <some failing startup/product>, here’s <10 totally meaningless> reasons why you should subscribe to my product that does nothing for your question.
for those who have no choice but to quickly look for an answer on quora, there’s an alternative frontend that makes quora bearable.
@UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works, @magic_lobster_party@kbin.social
Was it ever alive? When I found it the site was already trash asking for an account just to see content, yahoo answers was the shit.
