Forum downgraded in Google search results

[Adora77]

I used to look for forum hivemind by typing "ray peat" + "my issue X" into Google.

Always gave me a prominent cluster of forum posts at the beginning.
5-7 topics and a "load more results"
Now I have to scroll to find even one post buried i to Instagram fad diet pics and Pinterest "my peatarian lunch" BS

 

[Logan-]

I don’t think it’s specific to rpf. There has been a deliberate attempt to destroy internet forums and channel people into popular social media platforms for questions and answers.

 

[Logan-]

The concept of internet forums, where people search for truth, and do so together, in anonymity, with mutual respect and rules and moderation outside of the elites’ direct sphere of influence is dangerous for the status quo. That’s why internet forums mostly died, or more correctly, have been killed.

 

[-Luke-]

I don’t think it’s specific to rpf. There has been a deliberate attempt to destroy internet forums and channel people into popular social media platforms for questions and answers.

Just two weeks ago a forum I frequented on and off since 2014 (one of two other forums I used besides RPF) was shut down. Out of nowhere and with a justification that is quite obviously a fairy tale. Relationships and Internet friendships (or "friendships") that have developed between users over the years and were the only support system some of them had, have been destroyed at the click of a mouse. And yes, I have noticed the same behavior with google and forums.

Internet forums are somewhat independent and anarchistic, whereas social media is completely controlled and everything a user sees is there for a reason.

 

[Mossy]

The concept of internet forums, where people search for truth, and do so together, in anonymity, with mutual respect and rules and moderation outside of the elites’ direct sphere of influence is dangerous for the status quo. That’s why internet forums mostly died, or more correctly, have been killed.

Definitely this.

 

[Elie]

Type "raypeatforum.com" + topic of interest

 

[Rinse & rePeat]

I used to look for forum hivemind by typing "ray peat" + "my issue X" into Google.

Always gave me a prominent cluster of forum posts at the beginning.
5-7 topics and a "load more results"
Now I have to scroll to find even one post buried i to Instagram fad diet pics and Pinterest "my peatarian lunch" BS

I am not having that problem. Here are the three made up searches I just now typed in and in all three the RPF came up number one.

 

[-Luke-]

Type "raypeatforum.com" + topic of interest

If you add "site:" (site:raypeatforum.com + topic of interest), it should only show results from this forum.

 

[wzuo]

maybe consider switching to duckduckgo