You underestimate how tech-dumb the majority of people are

I mean, idk if there’s any truth to this. My sense of smell is permanently disabled due to PCD and my sense of taste is still pretty accurate.

Meh, I use adblocker and ghostery. The impact on my results is minimal if anything

How’s it better than Google? Google is the king of data, idk how this competes with that

If it’s done will, it can be a treat. But more often than not, companies screw up - making it look tacky and outdated

Pornhub ftw

What’s a kagi

It’s garbage outside of the US for local results. Bing is somewhat better, but still not good enough. In the US though, plenty of good alternatives to Google search

In general, I agree with you, where the quality of posts and comments on Lenny appear to be of much higher quality than Reddit used to be. At the same time though, I miss even some of the not-so-niche big communities that were engaging and kept me addicted to Reddit - like r/formula1. The community is too small here too sustain that interest