Comment on Lemmy wouldn't really takeoff to replace Reddit until it's content is search indexable
gnu@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
I think the main problem with searching for fediverse posts is not that they’re not indexed but the lack of a singular tag to append when you want to search for them. To search for reddit posts it was easy because you could put in your keywords and stick ‘reddit’ or ‘site:reddit.com’ onto the end, but now there’s too many domains to keep track of and you can’t rely on appending ‘lemmy’ pointing a search engine towards all Lemmy instances, let alone kbin/mbin instances.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Exactly and for the same reason Lemmy won’t become as big as it has the potential to become. “Join Lemmy!” “How?” “Go to one of hundreds of websites and join and you’ll have access to the Lemmy content the admin decided you could have access to… Oh and people logging in from those other sites might not have access to the content on your site so you might not be able to interact with a big chunk of users unless it’s on a website that is connected to both your site and the site your site isn’t connected to so choose the site you create your account on wisely! Makes sense?”
Also, even if you find results through searching, it sucks that it probably brings you to an instance that isn’t yours so you have to figure out a way to open the link from your own instance in order to post in the discussion… That is, if you actually can from the instance you’re signing in from!
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Lemmy Universal Link Switcher
This is a pretty much a solved problem, the solution just needs to be promoted more, perhaps even on the join-lemmy page.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I shouldn’t need a third party to solve that.