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?

  • @QuinicVOP
    14•11 months ago

    Interesting. I hadn’t even thought about how the fact that instance1.[post] and instance2.[post@instance1] is essentially the same thing and how search engines would handle it. Interested in what you come up with!

    • @marsara9
      21•11 months ago

      Thanks. If you do some digging you can find the project on GitHub but note that it’s a work in progress still. The UI is lacking and it’s rough around the edges but it’s “working”. And I still need to do some optimizations on the crawler itself, etc…

      It’s also going to be completely self-hostable just like Lemmy, etc…

      • yasuocidal
        3•11 months ago

        Hey, can you dm me the git link, i would like to contribute if i can : )

            • silly goose meekah
              1•11 months ago

              probably, that’s pretty much what a search engine is. A crawler that saves it’s results into an optimized database, to make it easily searchable.