In defense of Reddit (yuck), if there's been one constant in all the years of its existence, it's been that their search is the worst. Not saying it's not intentional, cause it probably is, but damn if they've not worked hard to establish plausible deniability.
It's entirely possible the index for type-ahead search is not refreshed all the time but every day or week, which means it'll lag on words that weren't in the news a day ago
Well. They use a "most recent/most common " search term suggestion. You are free to continue typing in whatever you'd like. No one is censoring or hiding anything.
They will however ban you for comments that the ai bots mistake as violence or against their terms of service.
To the downvoters of this: seriously, you are not ready for someone not to know everything? Not knowing doesn't mean not caring - I don't remember the previous victim's name, but that doesn't mean that I don't care that she was murdered
This is a social platform where you're allowed to comment and ask questions. So I can understand their first thought would be to, you know, ask. Are we really going to hate on everyone asking a question instead of Googling everything? Do we really need this negativity on Lemmy? Should be we welcoming to people or should we be assholes as is the norm on Reddit?
Most services, including Lemmy, have an infinite wall of posts. Checking every name would be a full-time job. And writing a title "John Doe who is/was/will be (explanation), (what happened/will happen)" is super easy, as you have to write something anyway
If you have enough interest to make a comment on a post you should have enough interest to open up another window and quickly put a name into a search engine. It's pathetically easy.
Pathetically easy even? Come on, why are you like this? Is it that hard to be friendly to another person? They are merely asking a question and the first you think of is to make fun of them. Is that really what Lemmy is all about, making fun of people instead of helping them?
If I’m going to waste my fucking life writing a dumb question I’ll have to take time to check back on that would make me an idiot when Google is right fucking there.
I assume all of those comments are meant to pretend like it’s not important. It’s 2026. Come the fuck on.
IMO, notable fact is that this was an arbitrary execution :
He was disarmed (carried a concealed gun but it was taken away from him in the moments leading to his death)
He was not resisting (although there was a bit of scuffling, he quickly ended up cowering on the ground, both hands on the ground).
The ICE agents could not have really feel threatened in any way (a single woman in company of Alex, pepper sprayed and being restrained, a sparse number of onlookers filming some distance away, probably less then the total number of agents).
Something like a full charger was unloaded into the victim.
Out of curiosity I checked some big news sites here, it's relevant in the International section, but not the headline in any of them.
And none of news had the name of the victim in the title.
I knew ICE executed someone (again) in broad daylight, but the video on social media was the source, not the news.
The authoritarian escalation inside the US may be less relevant for me than it's escalation outside; like the kidnapping of the venezuelan president by US forces and it's repercussions in south-america.
Maybe I'm cuban, colombian, brazilian or mexican, and I'm more concerned with Trump's threatening interventions in my country like he did with Venezuela, knowing that the International community is ignoring his imperialistic moves on latin-america (as always).
... Or even violence cases in my own country are more relevant because they are a bigger risk for me. The world is bigger than the white western hemisphere.
Edit: But I get why everyone is very reactive right now, the situation is very fucked-up.
52 Comments
redhorsejacket@lemmy.world · 94 pts · 214d
In defense of Reddit (yuck), if there's been one constant in all the years of its existence, it's been that their search is the worst. Not saying it's not intentional, cause it probably is, but damn if they've not worked hard to establish plausible deniability.
bitflag@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 214d
It's entirely possible the index for type-ahead search is not refreshed all the time but every day or week, which means it'll lag on words that weren't in the news a day ago
BrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 213d
Yes this makes total sense for a site like reddit where topical elements trend..
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 214d
Have to agree. Always has and will be ass.
herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 213d
I checked other (non-political) recent keywords and it seems to be doing ok.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 214d
Fuck reddit.
bizarroland@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 214d
And fuck spez
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 34 pts · 214d
On any other search engine:
ChristchurchAsshole@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 213d
Good old advanced search + operators!
rottenmummy@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 214d
It is not far fetched but how do we know for sure it is intentional?
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 214d
We no longer live in a world where we can automatically assume idiocy over malice.
IronBird@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 214d
the saying was always ended with "but don't rule out malice"
architect@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 213d
Accuse them of it being intentional and you might get an answer.
Give them excuses and you never will.
Also its intentional.
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 213d
Can't pronounce Reddit without Edit
Slashme@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 213d
Works for me...
I'm hardly ever on Reddit anymore because Lemmy is so much better, but this isn't a Reddit issue.
CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 213d
Yeah; it just didnt refresh to the latest searches
eattherich@feddit.online · 4 pts · 213d
"Manufactured consent, not just for CBS anymore!"
--Reddit
baconmonsta@piefed.social · 4 pts · 213d
I can't reproduce this. Maybe it's something at your end?
barneyrubble@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 84d
Well. They use a "most recent/most common " search term suggestion. You are free to continue typing in whatever you'd like. No one is censoring or hiding anything.
They will however ban you for comments that the ai bots mistake as violence or against their terms of service.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · -7 pts · 214d
It's right there, the 3rd item down in your results. What am I missing?
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 214d
It’s spelled Pretti
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 214d
Ahh, that's what I get for trying to read without my glasses on. Thanks for the correction.
s1ndr0m3@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 214d
Thanks for the
correctioncorrective lenses. FTFYarthur@lemmy.zip · -10 pts · 214d
And who is this?
davel@lemmy.ml · 59 pts · 214d
Yet another victim of ICE’s murder spree.
Squirrelsdrivemenuts@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 214d
The man who was murdered by ICE
arthur@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 214d
Thanks \o/
Edit: did not know that either
manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 214d
o-forward slash is how nazis signify the roman salute, people on r/chapotraphouse used to use o7 as a salute
Sharkticon@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 213d
When people tell you who they are believe them.
anas@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 213d
That’s a really far reach, come on. It’s not even the right arm.
SoulKaribou@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 213d
Awwwww, for me that was a eve online thing... Guess I need to rework my text emotes...
toofpic@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 214d
To the downvoters of this: seriously, you are not ready for someone not to know everything? Not knowing doesn't mean not caring - I don't remember the previous victim's name, but that doesn't mean that I don't care that she was murdered
kek@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 214d
US defaultism
Sharkticon@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 214d
I don't blame them for not knowing, I'm blaming them for not doing the fucking bare minimum of just looking the name up first.
NaoPb@eviltoast.org · 0 pts · 212d
This is a social platform where you're allowed to comment and ask questions. So I can understand their first thought would be to, you know, ask. Are we really going to hate on everyone asking a question instead of Googling everything? Do we really need this negativity on Lemmy? Should be we welcoming to people or should we be assholes as is the norm on Reddit?
toofpic@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 213d
Most services, including Lemmy, have an infinite wall of posts. Checking every name would be a full-time job. And writing a title "John Doe who is/was/will be (explanation), (what happened/will happen)" is super easy, as you have to write something anyway
Sharkticon@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 213d
If you have enough interest to make a comment on a post you should have enough interest to open up another window and quickly put a name into a search engine. It's pathetically easy.
NaoPb@eviltoast.org · 0 pts · 212d
Pathetically easy even? Come on, why are you like this? Is it that hard to be friendly to another person? They are merely asking a question and the first you think of is to make fun of them. Is that really what Lemmy is all about, making fun of people instead of helping them?
architect@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 213d
If I’m going to waste my fucking life writing a dumb question I’ll have to take time to check back on that would make me an idiot when Google is right fucking there.
I assume all of those comments are meant to pretend like it’s not important. It’s 2026. Come the fuck on.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 213d
But it's a white American that got murdered this time. How could people possibly not remember his name?
arthur@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 213d
I'm not american
architect@thelemmy.club · 0 pts · 213d
No Google exists where you’re from or?
illi@piefed.social · 19 pts · 214d
If I'm not mistaken it's the guy who was most recently been killed by the ICE agents in the US. Notable fact is that he was a US citizen.
adb@lemmy.ml · 27 pts · 214d
IMO, notable fact is that this was an arbitrary execution :
He was disarmed (carried a concealed gun but it was taken away from him in the moments leading to his death)
He was not resisting (although there was a bit of scuffling, he quickly ended up cowering on the ground, both hands on the ground).
The ICE agents could not have really feel threatened in any way (a single woman in company of Alex, pepper sprayed and being restrained, a sparse number of onlookers filming some distance away, probably less then the total number of agents).
Something like a full charger was unloaded into the victim.
illi@piefed.social · 3 pts · 214d
Well that's beyond messed up
Pechente@feddit.org · 2 pts · 214d
Found the Reddit user
arthur@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 214d
Or, maybe, someone outside the US?
Pechente@feddit.org · 6 pts · 214d
Like me? Jokes of Reddit users aside, this is very big internationally. Just checked German news right now and it’s still the headline article.
architect@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 213d
Good maybe your journalists will tell the world the truth.
arthur@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 213d
Out of curiosity I checked some big news sites here, it's relevant in the International section, but not the headline in any of them. And none of news had the name of the victim in the title.
I knew ICE executed someone (again) in broad daylight, but the video on social media was the source, not the news.
The authoritarian escalation inside the US may be less relevant for me than it's escalation outside; like the kidnapping of the venezuelan president by US forces and it's repercussions in south-america.
Maybe I'm cuban, colombian, brazilian or mexican, and I'm more concerned with Trump's threatening interventions in my country like he did with Venezuela, knowing that the International community is ignoring his imperialistic moves on latin-america (as always).
... Or even violence cases in my own country are more relevant because they are a bigger risk for me. The world is bigger than the white western hemisphere.
Edit: But I get why everyone is very reactive right now, the situation is very fucked-up.
cepelinas@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 213d
I am eastern European and heard of this on lemmy and I have strict keyword filters.
NaoPb@eviltoast.org · 1 pts · 212d
I come here to get away from the negativity of Reddit, only to find people are just as bad over here when someone asks a question.