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?

  • @marsara9
    21•1 year 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•1 year ago

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

          • silly goose meekah
            1•1 year 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.