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When I tried it in the past, I kinda didn't take it seriously because everything was confined to its instance, but now, there's full-featured global search and proper federation everywhere? Wow, I thought I heard there were some technical obstacles making it very unlikely, but now it's just there and works great! I asked ChatGPT and it says this feature was added 5 years ago! Really? I'm not sure how I didn't notice this sooner. Was it really there for so long? With flairs showing original instance where video comes from and everything?

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[–] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Honest answer? It's easy and it won't judge you for asking stupid questions.

Edit - people are replying as if I said I do this. I'm sorry for the confusion. I don't. This is why I see other people do it. When it comes to the general population, most people don't care, they just want easy.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Search engines and Wikipedia don't judge you for asking stupid questions either.

[–] sixty@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

Almost all content has been hyper-optimized to rank well on Google, not to provide good answers for humans

[–] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

You're right, but they take actual thought and effort. People who use chat gpt don't wanna do that.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No it'll just hallucinate shit that'll make you look dumb when you go and state it as fact.

[–] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago

Yep, agree. That's why I don't personally use it.