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Reddit is a trove of incredibly useful and niche information across a huge range of topics. I wonder if Lemmy will be as searchable from Google, and if it will serve a similar purpose.

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[–] scifu 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe 10 years from now if this picks up. Reddit did not have as much on its first days either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

reddit still doesn't have a functional search lol, people have to use Google with site modifiers.

[–] tetelestia 20 points 2 years ago

Yeah this is one of the main uses for Reddit.

It might be harder with Lemmy instances spread across different domains, but hopefully the search engines learn to prioritize Lemmy well

[–] million 12 points 2 years ago

I wonder how federated activity pub instances fair on seo

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Depends on SEO and ActivityPub. I could see a dystopian future where the Silicon Valley refuses to improve on this use case, to push monolithic social media forward, which would also be in the interest of authoritarian governments.

[–] chisoph 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Would it be possible to build a search engine specifically for the fediverse?

[–] BackOnMyBS 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I could see DuckDuckGo being supportive

[–] psilves1 4 points 2 years ago

Don't they just use Bing's search engine?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

If the user base and content continue to grow at the current rate, it’s very likely. Reddit won’t just go away though. There is still a lot of content there and most people won’t stop using it anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

If they really go through with hamstringing the mods, reddit is going to be awash in a sea of spam and vitriol. I mean like, more than the usual amount.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Given lemmy is federated it's probably going to be significantly harder to search. I'd imagine if you went looking for "lemmy" content you'd be a lot more likely to get lemmy.world or lemmy.ml rather than sh.itjust.works or beehaw content for example, since those have "lemmy" in the domain name.

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