• @Wilco@lemm.ee
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    511 month ago

    Could you imagine a world where word of mouth became the norm again? Your friends would tell you about websites, and those sites would never show on search results because crawlers get stuck.

    • @oldfart@lemm.ee
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      71 month ago

      That would be terrible, I have friends but they mostly send uninteresting stuff.

    • @shalafi@lemmy.world
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      21 month ago

      There used to be 3 or 4 brands of, say, lawnmowers. Word of mouth told us what quality order them fell in. Everyone knew these things and there were only a few Ford Vs. Chevy sort of debates.

      Bought a corded leaf blower at the thrift today. 3 brands I recognized, same price, had no idea what to get. And if I had had the opportunity to ask friends or even research online, I’d probably have walked away more confused. For example; One was a Craftsman. “Before, after or in-between them going to shit?”

      Got off topic into real-world goods. Anyway, here’s my word-of-mouth for today: Free, online Photoshop. If I had money to blow, I’d drop the $5/mo. for the “premium” service just to encourage them. (No, you’re not missing a thing using it free.)

        • @NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk
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          61 month ago

          How do you know that’s a bot please? Is it specifically a hot advertising that online photos hop equivalent? Is it a real software or scam? The whole approach is intriguing to me

          • @Angelusz@lemmy.world
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            1 month ago

            Edit: I Will assume honesty in this instance. It’s because they’re advertising something in a very particular tone, to match what some Amerikaanse consider common language.

            Normal people don’t do that.

    • DontMakeMoreBabies
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      11 month ago

      It’d be fucking awful - I’m a grown ass adult and I don’t have time to sit in IRC/fuck around on BBS again just to figure out where to download something.