A great use for reddit is the ability to search posts and opinions about any niche topic. Will that be possible with Lemmy as it grows? Will I be able to Google “instant rice Lemmy” and get a comprehensive tier list of each brand?

I imagine search engines will have trouble with all the different instances(?). EDIT: Especially with instances that don’t have Lemmy in their name, I don’t think search engines would return them for Lemmy searches?

  • static@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The mastodon crowd was verry anti on search engines, and killed projects like this.
    But yea, do it! I think the lemmy/kbin crowd would mostly like it

    • marsara9@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Ya I only index Lemmy instances, for now. Mastodon and other ActivityPub servers may be in the future, but ActivityPub has some limitations so I’m stuck using the Lemmy-specific APIs.