>>724535895
Newspapers, fagmags, wikis, and even malicious search-query storing sites all started to use SEO garbage so any real question is routed to their slop.
Forums moved to social media groups, communities moved to discord. The only remaining source of decentralized information was reddit but autistic rants made them go on a trend of mass deletion, even going as far as using tools that mangle their posts before deleting them.
>peer reviewed journals
As someone who had experience searching for those, the same SEO bullshit happened with keywords, the "peer reviewed" part is the editor of the journal having to read through submissions and choosing whatever has the most clickbaity title, most studies are jackshit and that's what the replication crisis is about.
Umberto Ecco was reminded of some Borges book i think, im which a character could remember every little detail in his life, he was a madman because his mind was overflowing with useless shit, same criticism he does of the internet and he's right (for the wrong reasons though)