This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they’d like to @[email protected] and I about Lemmy. This includes its development and future, as well as wider issues relevant to the social media landscape today.

Note: This will be the thread tmrw, so you can use this thread to ask and vote on questions beforehand.

Original Announcement thread

    • @LimeeyEnglish
      5•1 year ago

      It would be better to replicate the db into a purpose built search engine like elasticsearch or TypeSense, and then modify the UI to use that. It’s dumb for lemmy to implement a search engine when there are better more supported systems out there. This isn’t really a lemmy feature, imo, outside of supporting deployments using those types of products.

      • @[email protected]English
        4•1 year ago

        Lemmy would still need to provide the UI for searching, and handle keeping Elasticsearch up-to-date.

        A dependency on Elasticsearch would significantly increase RAM usage though, so if Lemmy were to add support for it, it should be optional.

    • DessalinesOPMEnglish
      5•1 year ago

      You’ll have to open an issue for it. As long as there’s some way to translate the search operators into postgres statements, it’d be doable.