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My experience has been the opposite in the last few years. I've found myself filtering results google/duckduckgo specifically for reddit, because I was finding better answers to technical questions. Anecdotal, of course, and it does seem to be getting worse (less successful for me) over the last 6 months.

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Same for me. A very specific non technical example was when I was searching about Natto , the Japanese fermented soybean food. About how to make and tips on how to better prepare it.

A search in Google yields pure SEO garbage. Adding site:reddit.com gave some good advice around natto and even pointed to some cool YT video (natto dad or similar).

What specific topic(s) of technical questions came to your mind in making that comment?

The top of my mind was when I was having all sort of trouble with my Dell XPS and needed to find info on some bios operations, GPU testing, etc. Turned out it was a hardware failure that was tough to prove. Google yielded nothing, but there were a few threads on reddit that sent me in the right direction.

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