Post #2848989
2026-05-17 10:00 UTC
#ScribesAndMakers May 17: Link to, reply to, or summarize yesterday's poll and reveal the answer.
The answer was Google. I haven't regularly used Google as a search engine in years and years. With DuckDuckGo trying to do DuckAI every five minutes, I did switch most of my browsers over to using Startpage (which uses Google but without the slop) but even that doesn't get used for writing research for the most part. There's too much slop on the internet to reasonably and efficiently get to accurate information by using a search engine.
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@EveHasWords@toot.cat 2026-05-18 10:00
#ScribesAndMakers May 18: If someone were to write a character based on you, how often would exclamation marks be warranted in your dialogue? Depends! On how! Accurately! Their editor! Let's them!
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@rubyjones@wandering.shop 2026-05-17 10:08
@EveHasWords@toot.cat Word to that.
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@ElyseMGrasso@wandering.shop 2026-05-17 17:39
@EveHasWords@toot.cat I use noai.duckduckgo.com. Seems to be adequate...