I think as the community grows, more search engines will start including us!
I can’t wait until we can start appending “lemmy” to our search strings in order to find useful results.
We are in Brave's search results!
Submitted 8 months ago by spez@sh.itjust.works to fediverse@lemmy.world
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MamboGator@lemmy.world 8 months ago
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Is there a “user reviews” community?
Steve@communick.news 8 months ago
Kagi does it already.
!Lemmy [stuff]
Gets you stuff from all over Lemmy
Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
yeah but its, like, 5 bucks a month /:
capital@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This is exactly what comes to mind when some fedi people want to block all the search engines.
Good answers from real people are what drove everyone to start appending “Reddit” to the end of searches. The rest of the results are SEO trash.
I’d like to see a lot of that traffic move to lemmy and other fedi stuff and I think letting indexers do their thing is positive.
PonyOfWar@pawb.social 8 months ago
Odd that it’s an obscure Basque instance though.
mozz@mbin.grits.dev 8 months ago
The search engine bots are absolutely powerhouse-obnoxious in how many requests they make, and there a ton of them, and Lemmy's not real optimized to cope with the load -- most big instances block all bot traffic simply as a matter of server survival as a result of that. So I would expect not to see any of them in search results any time in the near future.
HKayn@dormi.zone 8 months ago
Search engines currently struggle with the concept of federated posts. My guess is that instead of finding a post’s home instance, they accept the first mirror of that post and discard copies from all other instances through deduplication.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Kagi has a “Fediverse forums” lens now as well.
sbv@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I’m seeing Lemmy posts on Google results as well.
moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
I see Lemmy on Google too. It surprised me at first but I like that it get indexed.
maxwisecracks@lemmy.world 8 months ago
why not use vivaldi if you have to use a chromium-based browser
HKayn@dormi.zone 8 months ago
Why care which browser they use?
spez@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
It’s firefox (well, librewolf) + vivaldi is closed-source.
TiffyBelle@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s a little disingenuous so say that “Vivaldi is closed source” and leave it at that. The vast majority of their browser is built on open-source code:
vivaldi.com/…/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-sourc…
Only a small portion (~5%) of their bespoke UI code is closed. The vast majority of their source is published.
MashedTech@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Why Vivaldi?
cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Because it’s fucking awesome. Here’s why I used* to use it:
- Built in email client
- Built in RSS reader.
- Themes and customisable UI (vertical tabs, bottom tags, tab previews, tab stacking)
- Built in ad blocker
- Sidebar with Mastodon, RSS, mail, translate, etc
*I use Floorp now cos I wanna support Mozilla/Firefox by upping the browser share numbers but Vivaldi is the best Chromium-based browser by far.
uis@lemm.ee 8 months ago
.eus.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 8 months ago
.eus is the top-level domain for the Basque language. The abbreviation eus comes from the Basque endonym euskara, meaning “Basque language”.
TIL
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 8 months ago
I made a crude lemmy scanner, but as I’m using the “http api” I’m a bit stuck at servers and instances. Almost 1800 servers and IIRC (I’m on my phone) some 40.000 communities. Yay!
I know the official api docs, but I don’t know how to really use it, just send a json to some server? Would love to have an easy example and I’ll go from there (family, work, art, and other gets in the way).
The goal would be to figure out how to make a search engine without storing the whole lemmyverse locally.
FOSS obviously.
StopSpazzing@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Sounds interesting, what’s the size of lemmy stored locally with only text?
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 8 months ago
I don’t know as the (cURL http) API I’m using is confusing for messages so I only have the servers & communities.
If I get it up and running I’ll tell :-D
kionite231@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Should be less than a TB.
spez@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Here’s the link for anyone who wants a quick check - search.brave.com/search?q=mastodon android clients
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
it would probablyhelop if the search prompt is not written by a dyslexic… shakes head
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Irony that you could drape over yourself and go to sleep with
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
My excuse being the lemmy android app message editor being bugged, getting out of sync when deleting characters.
spez@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
dude you write verbs like ‘shakes head’ in your comments.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
that’s not a verb, that’s an emote. Considering you chose the dumbest possible username for lemmy, I am not surprised you wouldn’t understand that.
Also: There’s a substantial difference to you searching for “anroid” clients and making a post based on those search results.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Fuck Brave and fucks its owner Brendan Eich.
Don’t promote that despicable company in any way.
UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Why what’s up with them? Asking cuz I don’t know.
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Tl;dr Brave’s ceo (founder?) has donated to legislation to abolish gay marriage in California.
Brave adds referral links to cryptocurrency urls.
And it is apparently collecting money for YouTubers and not paying them (I did not fully read that article myself)
SloganLessons@kbin.social 8 months ago
As a piece of software, nothing. It’s an open source browser, and has an added bonus of having many privacy settings on by default. Not even firefox can say the same, it comes with telemetry, pocket and whatnot out of the box.
But there are some fair criticisms about the company and its administration. For example, there was an incident years ago when you signed on a crypto exchange, it would swap the sign on link for their own referral link. They claimed this was an error and quickly patched it, but I don’t buy it.
You’ll quickly notice that a lot of people on lemmy passionately hate brave. So expect a strong bias and, as a result, truths but overblown, half truths and misinformation. Don’t ignore what they say but double check them.
Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Read the links of the comment you are replying to.
AVengefulAxolotl@lemmy.world 8 months ago
While I agree, but i tried Brave Search for a few weeks, and it seemed pretty good.
I wouldnt use Brave Browser, because Vivaldi is there (if you need Chromium.) But for a search engine which is free? DuckDuckGo maybe?
P.S. Kagi search is pretty good if you are willing to pay.
Carighan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
DDG is so bad in results though it makes not using a search engine seem like a solid alternative. I remember that research from a few months ago where they compared Google, Bing and DDG to do statistical analysis of if and how much Google’s search results have been getting worse in recent years.
Result:
The real conclusion was that SEO spam has found ways to optimize that is no longer easy to exclude for search providers. Hence all search is getting shit pretty quickly.
CatTrickery@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
A lot of people are complaining about Kagi using Brave as a backend but the alternatives aren’t much better. Both Google and Microsoft are BDS for example.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
nuh uh
EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Wait so the same guy owns brave is now firefoxes CEO?
Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
No, the opposite
bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social 8 months ago
no. the old ceo owns brave.