Hi, I'm relatively new here. Like probably a lot of people, I appended the word "reddit" to most of my searches to get discussions around my interests/news or to find "curated" things. I noticed that it does not work as great with "Lemmy" for example, as the user base is more spread out and smaller in general.

I've looked for a search engine for the Lemmy or fediverse with no luck. There exists some to find communities but not to return posts it seems.
If it does not exists, is this even something that can be built? Would one need to build a crawler or use an API? I would be very interested to contribute to such a project.

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[–] JayPalm 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do we know if/that Lemmy posts are getting indexed by google? I haven’t had much luck throwing “lemmy” into my google searches but presumably if we do it should start getting more traffic and increase rank?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They do getting indexed ;)

[–] JayPalm 2 points 1 year ago

Nice.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:lemmy.world

[–] JayPalm 3 points 1 year ago

This obviously isn’t very good though cause it will only index posts on lemmy.world, not other indexes, no?