is there really any place for LH in times of Reddit subs like LPT and likes?
also used to read it like 15-20 years ago, but the content just didn't tell me anything new
also used to read it like 15-20 years ago, but the content just didn't tell me anything new
I do think there is still a good future for a Lifehacker that goes back to high quality and interesting content from a small set of passionate voices. Too often on Reddit you get a hive mind where the group forms a consensus and any dissenting or alternate views are suppressed or ignored. It's nice to have something with a strong editorial team that can publish unique content based on the merits of its research, and not mashes of the upvote button.
It's a common trope, but reddit has really taken a nose dive as the average user base grows to reflect the average population better. As George Carlin noted, the average person is kind of dumb, and half of all people are even dumber than that. On top of this race to the mean, you have advertisers who are increasingly aware of how many eyeballs are visiting the site, and the playbook for shilling and influencing sentiment on reddit is pretty textbook and reliable at this point, so a lot of content isn't really "genuine" anymore, especially on the larger subs with more eyeballs to monetize or influence.
If they seek to be an honest source of information they ought to stand out in modern net sources. We all know the hell of searching for info on google nowadays.
stopped reading LH already before starting with Reddit
Plenty of overlap there.
I mean, Lifehacker is too, but in theory yes of course there’s a place for advice that isn’t garbage, even if LH isn’t it.
Usually I defer to reddit but sometimes even that is junk, and google tends to misdate ancient reddit threads as more recent. The best is when I identify a relevant forum on the first pass. Then I can append the site:forum.com tag and actually search the forum, because its internal search is probably ancient rate limited junk still.
Google makes a great search tool for parsing an individual or handful of websites like this, but its terrible of course when parsing the firehose of the modern web.